Ukraine open sourced it's star government services app
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Ukraine open sourced it's star government services app
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Re: Ukraine open sourced it's star government services app
#2Diia provides access to digital documents and government services for Ukrainian citizens. The documents in the mobile app are accepted by officials. Also a few government services are available.
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#3Wow! This is insanely cool!
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#4Is that even legal to have it closed source in a democracy???
Re: Ukraine open sourced it's star government services app
#5Is that even legal to have it closed source in a democracy???
Is all software developed for every democratic government open source? Weird take to call it illegal. They only got this system up a couple years ago, and they've been dealing with an invasion for the last 2 years.
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#6The license used seems to be EUPL-1.2 for everything they've released.
FSF says it's copyleft comparable to the GPL, but isn't compatible with it. (although, can be re-licensed by following a two-step process)
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#7The navigation doesn't work in Firefox.
> Uncaught TypeError: document.querySelector(...).computedStyleMap is not a function
This happens because they hijack the built-in hash navigation, essentially breaking functionality that would've worked if they just left it alone.
If you really need to use shiny features unsupported in all browsers use polyfills, we learned this decades ago. Screwing up something so simple doesn't give me much confidence in the rest of the project.
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#8Is that even legal to have it closed source in a democracy???
In the roman law tradition, which Ukraine follows, everything's legal except that which is specifically made illegal.
If there's no law against it, then it's legal.
Being a democracy has nothing to do with it. If you're an adult, you should learn the basics of law, because the law applies to you anyway.
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#9Is that even legal to have it closed source in a democracy???
Is all software developed for every democratic government open source? Weird take to call it illegal. They only got this system up a couple years ago, and they've been dealing with an invasion for the last 2 years.
All software running on citizen devices should be open source in a democracy. As they should have a noscript/basic (x)html portal, if reasonable, to lower the technical exit cost of any "app platform" and to provide a fair, low technical cost, and nearly equilavent access to any alternative platforms past present and future.
"The software industry" is full of scammers (planned obsolescence, etc). It is very hard for govs (democratic) to stay clean here.
EU started to regulate Big Tech, it is only the beginning.
Re: Ukraine open sourced it's star government services app
#10The navigation doesn't work in Firefox. > Uncaught TypeError: document.querySelector(...).computedStyleMap is not a function This happens because they hijack the built-in hash navigation, essentially breaking functionality that would've worked if they just left it alone. If you really need to use shiny features unsupported in all browsers use polyfills, we learned this decades ago. Screwing up something so simple doe…
Open source is a gift left by the wayside for people to pick up or not. It's not a customer-vendor relationship.
You're free to react as you want, but it's good to keep in mind that if you want the maintainers to care, you should be willing to enter into a customer-vendor relationship.