Hello Henning, thanks for that. I really like the short message!
Best Regards, Matthias * Henning Jacobs [2017-09-13 19:40 +0200]:
Public Money, Public Code: Publicly Funded Software Has to Be Free Software We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well. "I can't say how much I support this, it is so obviously a good idea" -- https://twitter.com/hanno/status/907904636283224064 I have nothing to add. Sign the open letter! :-) Many organizations (incl. WikiMedia, CCC, KDE, OSI) signed the open letter, please sign it too: https://publiccode.eu/openletter/ Press coverage (German): * http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/public-code-aktivisten-fordern-freie-software-vom-staat-a-1167416.html * https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kampagne-Public-Code-Software-fuer-die-Verwaltung-soll-frei-sein-3830705.html * https://netzpolitik.org/2017/kampagne-oeffentliches-geld-oeffentlicher-code/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15236686
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