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   phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 08:33:05 JST phiofx

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   • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

   @lightweight public sector open source will not be particularly sweet (if there ever was design by committee this is it) and will be likely controlled by a cottage industry of do-gooders milking its procurement, just not with proprietary code.

   But in a sense its existence would be part of the natural order of things (warts and all) and its absence is an aberration that is very close to dystopic.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 08:33:07 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     What we should be aiming for: gov't recognition that #libre software is our crucial 'digital infrastructure' and should be funded from public funds (like crucial physical infrastructure).

     By corollary, we need to insist that publicly funded software is #libre (open source, ideally #copyleft).

     Similarly, we should require any publicly-funded educational curriculum development is made available under open licenses (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA), i.e. Open Educational Resources or OER.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 08:33:09 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

     I came across this EU study on the 'value of open source' (which I call #libre), and I think all of us user our influence to make sure that the power-brokers in our lives are aware of it and understand its implications: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and