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Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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Every law passed by Bulgarian parliament serves only one purpose - to put pressure on somebody, so people in the shadows can get a slice. edit: A new government agency is tasked with enforcing the law Ah, I see now.

I know the people who stand behind this and believe me, they have 0 (zero) dependence on the oligarchy and moreover they are a team of experts who have been in the private sector until recently. This law is one against the status quo.

Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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post #7

Every law passed by Bulgarian parliament serves only one purpose - to put pressure on somebody, so people in the shadows can get a slice. edit: A new government agency is tasked with enforcing the law Ah, I see now.

The GERB party doesn't do any politics or strategic decisions in favour of the nation. Its sole purpose is to keep bureaucracy high and its favoured companies busy by distributing EU funds through "power channels". More bureaucracy means easy money for that same "elite".

You are totally right about the power channels, but the truth is they are focused on the construction sector. The old commies who stand behind this are not that confident when working with IT and that is one of the biggest reasons the law passed. They still don't acknowledge or don't care that it will be harder for them to steal from IT public tenders.

Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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post #7

Every law passed by Bulgarian parliament serves only one purpose - to put pressure on somebody, so people in the shadows can get a slice. edit: A new government agency is tasked with enforcing the law Ah, I see now.

The GERB party doesn't do any politics or strategic decisions in favour of the nation. Its sole purpose is to keep bureaucracy high and its favoured companies busy by distributing EU funds through "power channels". More bureaucracy means easy money for that same "elite".

There is no party which does politics or strategic decisions in Bulgaria. ALL of the political scene is usurped by ex-intelligence officers and they suffocate any possible alternative in infancy. It is quite depressing and I don't think there is a way out.

Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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post #11
post #7

Every law passed by Bulgarian parliament serves only one purpose - to put pressure on somebody, so people in the shadows can get a slice. edit: A new government agency is tasked with enforcing the law Ah, I see now.

I know the people who stand behind this and believe me, they have 0 (zero) dependence on the oligarchy and moreover they are a team of experts who have been in the private sector until recently. This law is one against the status quo.

There have been plenty of experts with 0 dependency from the oligarchy. They all either failed or started dancing to the tune. Even if they have pure intentions, they will get manipulated, used and eventually thrown out while the agency will serve as a means to block companies who don't know the right people.

Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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Would be nice if bigger nations like USA, UK/GB, Germany would adopt this policy and have to open source the exploits and root kits that where develop with tax payers money. Open source XKeyscore, yay!

The UK government's digital services implement Open Standards for most of the code they develop. While this isn't something that third party vendors have to do, GDS/PDS/MOJDS/HMRCDigital are all rapidly reducing the amount of work external vendors do for government anyway.

https://github.com/alphagov

Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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post #4

Would be nice if bigger nations like USA, UK/GB, Germany would adopt this policy and have to open source the exploits and root kits that where develop with tax payers money. Open source XKeyscore, yay!

I think, the USA even already has a law like that, except that projects that were started prior to that law don't have to be open-sourced, so that's how XKeyscore is protected...

Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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post #16
post #4

Would be nice if bigger nations like USA, UK/GB, Germany would adopt this policy and have to open source the exploits and root kits that where develop with tax payers money. Open source XKeyscore, yay!

The UK government's digital services implement Open Standards for most of the code they develop. While this isn't something that third party vendors have to do, GDS/PDS/MOJDS/HMRCDigital are all rapidly reducing the amount of work external vendors do for government anyway. https://github.com/alphagov

Yes, in the linked presentation I mention GDS as a good example. The US also has a lot of opensource projects.

Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

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Out of context, this may sound like mildly cheerful news.

It is not.

Bulgaria is a doomed shithole, which has for many decades been ran by a murderous communist mafia, controlling every aspect of the economy and the legal system, while licking many foreign asses with equal dexterity (US / NATO, Russian, European, Ukrainian, Saudi, Israeli, Turkish - everyone whose ass is worth licking, Bulgarian "politicians" do it in order to secure _personal_ gains).

But, yay, open-source. Sure. Whatever.

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