Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced
Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced
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That’s going to be difficult. I wonder if the politicians understand what problems and limitations there are in that regard. Not that I think it’s a bad idea, but I have a feeling they’ll discover problems they didn’t anticipate.
Even if someone *wants* to open source their program, if they used code from other sources that they don’t have licensing to distribute as source, then they can’t open source their entire program.
Stuff like that would make it impossible for something like Windows to be fully open sourced, even if Microsoft wanted to make it fully open source.
I think this will end bad. People have a false sense that open source = more secure. In the real world, this is rarely if ever true. Security through obscurity is absolutely a thing. Open source allows people to VERY easily find exploits in your code that otherwise would’ve taken a long ass time to come across.
For example, majority of iOS zerodays have been WebKit derived (probably one of the only open source part of iOS).
you’re really missing a very important detail that goes hard against that title:
>***unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns***
any large software vendor won’t just magically hand over their closed source code because the swiss government wants it and most software developed for governments or acquired by them is obtained from private companies.
Is this in reaction to crowdstrike or coincidence ?