Free Software Foundation EuropeOct 14, 2024

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

👉 https://publiccode.eu/

https://publiccode.eu/en/

Show threadFrank McCulley
@fsfe can we apply the same logic to prescription drugs that are developed through government grants
Oct 14, 2024 at 7:36pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadAlexanderMarsOct 14, 2024
@fmcculleynj @fsfe definitely, any public funding should mean the patents generated are also owned by the public. I would even support the exclusive licensing of those patents for corporate use with transparently negotiated fees, that went to the equivalent of a sovereign wealth fund. Government bailouts should also include riders that the public must profit from the transaction.