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1. Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 00:48:34 JST Free Software Foundation Europe

   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/

   • crazyeddie (crazyeddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 02:04:06 JST crazyeddie

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     @fsfe Not all public information is available to the public. Classified information is owned by the public but not available. Would you want the software that runs your tanks and nuclear subs to be freely available?

   • Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷 (algocompsynth@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 02:38:04 JST Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷

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     @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.

     #PublicCode

   • Andrew Dear (andrewdear@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 03:15:54 JST Andrew Dear

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     @fsfe Subsidized software does have a ring to it.

   • MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘 (mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 03:46:38 JST MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

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     @fsfe
     As a programmer, just b/c the project is public, doesn't mean my code should be as well.

     Certain exceptions where release of the code is in the public interest, like code used on voting machines, but when a coder's work can be applied to other uses, the author deserves compensation for their hard work.

   • Leta_Darnell (moral_gutpunch@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:08:10 JST Leta_Darnell

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     @fsfe Can we AT LEAST have functioning helpdesks where we can ask a person from the company and not other people who just say 'I have the same problem and no one will help me?'

   • Frank McCulley (fmcculleynj@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:36:27 JST Frank McCulley

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     @fsfe can we apply the same logic to prescription drugs that are developed through government grants