It seems like no brainer to me that governments should be using and developing public goods. It'd be cool to submit patches to my local DMV to make my experience there more efficient, etc.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 19 May
One of the big barriers to this is that the big tech companies are constantly knocking on government doors, offering goodies if government buys the software.
There's nothing like that, on the side of open source software.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 19 May
I feel the same way. I'm no fan of monopoly governments but they claim to be working for the public and yet seem very unsure about using software from the public and open to the public. A lot of it is just ignorance I think.
I can still remember being a "conservative' in my twenties questioning all the inconsistencies and discovering open source. I remember thinking this sounds like communism. Of course I didn't really get what socialism actually was beyond the memes we are all taught. The ones that miss the root rot in the ideology and the functional deficiencies. It took a while for me to realize that open source is just voluntary cooperation and this is good, not socialist in any way. No more than charity is socialism.
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