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European News 🇪🇺Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory For Public Sector
A big boost to the open-source community and an inspiration to other public sectors!
Kevin Karhan 
Mark de Vries 🇪🇺
Jago@kkarhan @markdevries @eunews
What I've seen and if I understand correctly:
* "package software" like Office are exempt and will be used like before.
* any newly developed software for use in the public sector must have source code available for future development. Not open source per se, but avoiding vendor lock-in by having the sources available.
What I've seen and if I understand correctly:
* "package software" like Office are exempt and will be used like before.
* any newly developed software for use in the public sector must have source code available for future development. Not open source per se, but avoiding vendor lock-in by having the sources available.
@jago @markdevries @eunews That's what I've known so far and been the only confirmed scope so far: "Custom" solutions must be #FLOSS'd or at least provided with #SourceCode & #Copyright to the Swiss government, but #COTS solutions like #Windows are still allowed as they don't get customized but are in fact "commercial off-the-shelf"...
leyrer@eunews that headline is wrong