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The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

This is freaking based

[–] recursive_recursion 44 points 1 month ago

huge win for Swiss people and the FOSS community🥳

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

which is rationally the better choice

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's good

I think the government needs to accept that is it a huge part these days

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Very based. Taxpayer money goes to make these programs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

damn that's something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Just on a federal level so far, cantons (states) do not have this law as of now. But we expect most to follow in the next few years.