Comment on Help open the source of the myGov Code Generator app
fizzle@quokk.au 1 week ago
Tricky.
I absolutely believe that all software paid for by public funds should be open source.
That said, they’re not going to open source software which they commissioned without that requirement.
spartanatreyu@programming.dev 1 week ago
Counterpoint: Public funds pay for software used by military and intelligence services. Certain information becoming publicly available can lead to real harm. (e.g. A self-assessment on a country’s own weaknesses, methods that spies deployed abroad can deliver information back, etc…) How do you manage the infohazard risk?
Should probably be changed to: all software paid for by public funds should be open source so long as their is no or low foreseeable infohazard risk.