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Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• stormeuh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IMO this should be the case for everything developed using public money, looking at you, pharmaceutical companies…

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  • Liz@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The issue becomes when things are developed with a mix of public and private money. I’m not saying we shouldn’t tackle the issue, only that it can’t be as simple as public money = public resource. If that were true, nearly all of us would be required to work for free, since we got the majority of our education through public funding.

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can still pay people to write public code, though.

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    • nickhammes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think anyone intends public funds to be quite that sticky; public education is itself a public good, and having once attended a public school really has nothing to do with developing a product 20 years down the road.

      Also, writing open source code can support a viable business. Not every example has been successful, and some have been sold to hypercapitalist owners who wanted to extract more profit, others have failed to keep up, but Canonical is doing alright with it, Red Hat did for a long time, among others. Plenty of bigger tech companies also employ people to write open source software, despite it not being the company’s main business, React, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and so many other projects. Those engineers definitely aren’t working for free.

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    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s the difference between individual knowledge (company training) and code licenses though.

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    • logging_strict@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      govts print infinite money. All of us are working for free. Their fiat is credits for the company store.

      If you think funding projects is bad then the response is to support lobbying project owners to put in malware until FOSS is publically funded.

      All we have to do is verbally support it. And cheerlead when it occurs. We don’t actually have to actively do it. It’s a threat which is done in politics all the time.

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      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If governments could print infinite money they would just pay themselves an infinite salary.

        Your fundamentals of economics is broken.

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe this lazy private money should get a real job if it wants to pay for things to profit off of.

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But it will be written in Schwiizerdütch, so no one outside of Switzerland will understand it. I think it’s a dialect of Perl.

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your joke aside, which I thought was funny did remind me that as it happens, the Swiss do an amazing job in making things internationally accessible.

    Take for example their spectrum management system that not only allows you to search for categories of users, handles kHz to MHz data entry, gives access to the legal provisions and then the legislation itself, does so in four languages.

    www.ofcomnet.ch/#/fatTable

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ll do with Swiss dialect of Lisp with grüezi instead of define.

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• uis@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This almost pleases RMS

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