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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by netsharc »

Reading the sourced link, it's currently only for federal government institutions, a lot of things, like the "DMV", or social services, are still the domain of the Kantons (equivalent to a US state).

So it's "all" but in a different context to what you might understand as "all". ;)

Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by recursivedoubts »

austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

i can think of no act more deviously effective in bringing down the american empire than introducing the NPM ecosystem into its vital bloodstream, well played comrade!

Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by lawn »

austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

To be honest, not having node.js on the approved software list seems like a pretty good idea.

Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by _xivi »

austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

> I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle

What's on the approved stack? I imagine .Net and Java/spring are the standard, right? anything else like php, python, go etc?

Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by ffsm8 »

austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

But is node worth it without the npm packages?

I feel like it's pretty much one of the worst runtimes/scripting languages if you can't utilize it's ecosystem.

Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by kjkjadksj »

austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

Considering the military has an offensive cybersecurity arm, maybe they know more about node js and why not to use it than you might assume.

Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

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Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by thaithrowawayy »

austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

This is actually really scary that you want NPM in the military... Thank god that I trust - this was denied - smart move.

Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Post by segmondy »

austin-cheney wrote: post #5

The US government, especially the military, is largely allergic to software. This is slowly starting to change, but only in small pockets. I am aware of three software teams in the military but they are highly specialized with small dedicated customers. I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle. I suspect the main culprits a…

Sorry, but I'm glad they are not open to node. Why would you want node within the militaries network?
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