[throwaway89988]

Sadly I totally agree: Open Source is the playground of people who can afford it.

I benefited a lot of Open Source in my career, life so I am very thankful for all contributors (and try to give back in money/time, when I can afford one or the other).

What really annoys me, that my government does not mandate that software build with tax money must be Open Source.

That would go a long way to fund Open Source and improve the quality.

[notyoutube]

What government is that?

[red_trumpet]

I dunno, all of them? Which governments mandate open source software when calling for bids?

[notyoutube]

(I wasn't trying to make a point.) As far as I know, that's what the initiatives like PMPC¹ are for. I think in Switzerland, a law recently passed that seems to go in that direction² (Open Source should by default but some leniency as far as I can interpret the text). According to this³ OSOR report, something similar happened in Italy in 2019. So, I think we're slowly going in that direction in Europe.

¹: https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-wi...

²: https://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/communique...

³: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files...

[neoberg]

Bulgaria does. https://git.egov.bg/explore/projects

[germandiago]

I do not think it should be mandated. But it should be promoted