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.
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Gargantuan@piefed.social 14 hours agowhy would that mean it has to be open source? Should we be open sourcing all our defece projects too?
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 10 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 .
Hegar@fedia.io 14 hours ago
Open source defeces projects do sounds pretty shit.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 11 hours ago
Security by obscurity doesn’t exist, so perhaps yes.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
It’s a transport app. Not the code to the nuclear defences.