“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"
Nice sentiment, but bad take. Open-sourcing the software that runs our military equipment would be a fantastic gift to the bad actors of the world.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Dunno, sounds like some fucking commie shit to be. And not the kind i can someyimes get on board with when it comes time to do secret police shebanigans, but the bad scary kind where they dont even have a use for police.
Wouldn’t it be better to just give the code for free to a good corporate citizen who can be entrusted with its stewardship?
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 2 months ago
only if the corporate citizen promise really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Also we have to pay them whenever we want to use the code. Yes.
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 2 months ago
you bought it, why shouldn’t you also rent it?
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s impractical, because for a pinky promise, you need to actually lock pinkies. We need a surrogate, like maybe the Commander in Chief?
czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Bro why are people downvoting this when it is so clearly a joke
fiddledeedee@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
because its the internet in 2025 and we simply cannot tell anymore
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I can think of two reasons and both of them are hilarious.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A lot of people are completely incapable of reading obvious sarcasm, which is too bad.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
/s dude, this is the Internet and you are not a person with a widely known stance.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The candle that burns half as bright burns twice as long, and you, my child, will burn so very long.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
Sick “burn”, but still a bit uncalled for, don’t you think?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
To be fair, since it’s public domain, anyone can take it, modify it (and not release modifications), and try to screw you over w/ it.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No but im saying it shouldn’t be public, it should be given to a good corporate citizen to maintain so we can rent it back when we need it.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well, public domain gets you halfway there. You can still rent it later, provided the original is user-unfriendly enough that you’d be interested in alternatives.