Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
plz1@lemmy.world 1 day agoDon’t worry, that’s all written by defense contractors anyways, so they’ll sell it to the US, and to others the US allows, all closed source. The source won’t even be open to the US government, either, as that’d harm the bottom line of the contractor (support & maintenance contracts for that closed-source software).
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I really don’t get why the government does this. The US government is a massive client, and they could probably force their suppliers to provide them an open source license so they can maintain it themselves. What else are military contractors going to do, not sell their guns? It’s not like the US gov is going to let them sell to countries we don’t like anyway, so it’s in their interest to play ball.