Why isn’t software funded by taxpayers released as Free Software? 🤔💻
We need legislation 📜 requiring publicly financed software to be #FreeSoftware. If it’s public money 💰, it should be public code! 👨💻👩💻
Code paid by the people should be available to the people! 🙌 #PublicCode
@fsfe A fair amount of USA government-developed software *is* open source and has been for decades! When i worked at NASA in the 1970s we were releasing a lot of code, and long before the web, email servers were distributing LINPACK linear algebra code via email servers.
@AlgoCompSynth @fsfe I’d love to know more on which agency’s are. Do you have any relevant citations or links you can share?
I can grok that early work was, fresh horizons are usually studded with idealism, but I feel as the tech inundation of outside low bid contractors are pretty much not caring about any sort of foss concepts these days.
@LordofCandy @fsfe NASA for sure - here's their catalog: https://software.nasa.gov/
LINPACK and other packages are https://netlib.org/
Those are the only two I've used extensively. Many agencies publish machine-readable data with software for using it.
Free Software Foundation Europe
AlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦
Andy