Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
I presume this £4m app paid for by the public purse is open source so that we can all see and benefit from it? Anyone got a link?
Gargantuan@piefed.social 13 hours ago
why would that mean it has to be open source? Should we be open sourcing all our defece projects too?
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
It’s a transport app. Not the code to the nuclear defences.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
That might not be practical. But everything else done with public money should be open source. A lot of these software projects are more or less necessary for every city globally. Collaborating on a few apps and programmes is a lot more sensible then everyone having an app custom build by a contractor.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Public money of one jurisdiction shouldn’t necessarily pay for things so a different jurisdiction gets them for free. It’s an opportunity for the city to generate some revenue to offset other costs. Or it could be structured as a non-profit effort to develop open source, paid by ongoing grants from a number of cities that would use it - that would be nice, but difficult to orchestrate .
apotheotic@beehaw.org 9 hours ago
Security by obscurity doesn’t exist, so perhaps yes.
Hegar@fedia.io 13 hours ago
Open source defeces projects do sounds pretty shit.