The European Commission is Making its Software Open Source To Benefit Society (neowin.net) 24
The European Commission has announced that it's adopting new rules around open source software which will see it release software under open source licenses. From a report: The decision follows a Commission study that found investment in open source software leads on average to four times higher returns. There has also been a push for this type of action from the Public Money, Public Code campaign. If you're wondering what sort of code the EC could offer to the world, it gave two examples. First, there's its eSignature, a set of free standards, tools, and services that can speed up the creation and verification of electronic signatures that are legally valid inside the EU. Another example is LEOS (Legislation Editing Open Software) which is used to draft legal texts.
Docusign? (Score:2)
Is this why Docusign stock just tanked?
Goto loops (Score:2)
Anti govt types VS open source (Score:4, Funny)
Today's challenge, Big Government versus Open Source.
Will slashdot side with Big Government because they now support Open Source ideals? Or will they suddenly shit on Open Source because Big Government is involved?
Read the comments to find out!
Re:Anti govt types VS open source (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, the obvious has to be explained, because it is 2021.
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Only it's not like that at all because you have a two party system with noone else who has any chance of winning.
A lot of people don't vote for a candidate they support, they vote against the candidate they despise more. A lot of the people who voted for biden don't like him or agree with most of his policies, but they disagree with trump's policies more and wanted to see him lose so they voted for the only candidate who had a chance of beating him. They would have voted for pretty much any candidate the de
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Funny you should mention nazis, because when it became clear they were going to lose WW2 many nazis were faced with a similar two party choice between the western allies and the soviet union.
Given the choice between the two, most nazis chose to surrender to the western allies rather than the soviets and many even hoped to join the western allies in a fight against the soviets. They chose the side that was slightly less hostile to them.
When you're on a side that has no hope of winning and the only sides with
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Not to worry. After the next election, Microsoft will bribe (*cough*, *cough*), I mean lobby the government to switch back to renting software from Redmond's Finest.
This is a misunderstanding. Look at Microsoft Edge. Microsoft is very happy for you to release your software under an "open source" license as long as they can then take it, add a little bit to it, and lock in their own users with it. Just as Google has been naive by using the BSD license with Chromium, so I expect Microsoft will concentrate on pushing the EU away from copyleft and hope to sell them back their own software later.
It's not enough to just throw software over the wall and hope it sticks. Yo
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Contrary to what some copyleft advocates seem to believe, those who choose to use the BSD license understand the choice they are making and they are okay with it. If Google's goal was for the maximum number of people to use Chromium, then a BSD style license was a good choice.
Like everything in life, some of them do, some of them don't. For some of them, since it would be speculation about future events, there's no possible way for them to "understand" what they are doing. They only guess. Even after a few million years, there are still people that get surprised that when they pull out they still get a pregnancy.
A "little bit" [windowslatest.com]?
Hate to say it, but this exactly shows that Microsoft understands what Google doesn't and backs up my earlier point about Microsoft being completely happy to accept op
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Say what you will of the European Union (Score:4, Interesting)
It's bureaucratic, it's clunky, it's huge, it's uninspiring, it's technocratic, it's incredibly costly, half of it isn't really elected and none of it gives you a hard on. But I'm 100% sure deep down at heart, ultimately, the EU works for the benefit and protection of its European constituents, which is more than can be said of most world governments - including the US.
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It's a trade union (Score:2)
An excellent example of this is how the US has started trying to get the UK to privatize healthcare so that our private insurance companies can make money there. When the conversation came up post-Brexit there was talk that it was "unfair" for the UK to have a public health system because private healthcare can't "compete" along with vague threats of tariffs.
pre-Brexit UK could threat
Re: Say what you will of the European Union (Score:1)
China? (Score:2)
Does China support open source requirements of making modifications open source? Hahahahah.
The publiccode.eu url broke my facebook :)) (Score:2)
Just tried to post a comment on Facebook containing the URL to the publiccode.eu campaign. I got an error saying that "Your message couldn't be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive." What??? Oh boy, somebody must really hate OpenSource!
What is even more funny, is that after the above, now I can't use Facebook anymore because every page is covered by a generic error overlay saying "Sorry, Something Went Wrong" and which is comming back every time I close i
The EU uses Github (and Drupal) (Score:4, Informative)
For example:
https://github.com/JudicialCou... [github.com]
https://github.com/ec-europa [github.com]