Public Money, Public Code
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Public Money, Public Code
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Re: Public Money, Public Code
#2Wow, nice one, Facebook! I'm trying to share the link, and I get:
"Posts that look like spam according to our Community Guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can't be edited."
Re: Public Money, Public Code
#3If I was the software developer forced into this I'd just raise my price knowing I can no longer sell it elsewhere, IF I even agreed to it. That's going to hurt tax payers. It's a catchy title but just doesn't take more than a moments thought to see how it's going to backfire.
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#4If I was the software developer forced into this I'd just raise my price knowing I can no longer sell it elsewhere, IF I even agreed to it. That's going to hurt tax payers. It's a catchy title but just doesn't take more than a moments thought to see how it's going to backfire.
What do you mean? If you are a software developer working for a state or city you expect to sell the software you develop for them and collect the money yourself?
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#5Exact same story with publicly financed research going behind paywalled journals. If we're paying for it, we should have access.
Maybe time to have an equivalent of SciHub for code as well, although it will probably be harder to source that.
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#6If I was the software developer forced into this I'd just raise my price knowing I can no longer sell it elsewhere, IF I even agreed to it. That's going to hurt tax payers. It's a catchy title but just doesn't take more than a moments thought to see how it's going to backfire.
I believe this is directed more towards government-developed software, not explicitly contractors.
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#7If I was the software developer forced into this I'd just raise my price knowing I can no longer sell it elsewhere, IF I even agreed to it. That's going to hurt tax payers. It's a catchy title but just doesn't take more than a moments thought to see how it's going to backfire.
What do you mean? If you are a software developer working for a state or city you expect to sell the software you develop for them and collect the money yourself?
Good point, I was only thinking about outside contractors.
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#8If I was the software developer forced into this I'd just raise my price knowing I can no longer sell it elsewhere, IF I even agreed to it. That's going to hurt tax payers. It's a catchy title but just doesn't take more than a moments thought to see how it's going to backfire.
I believe this is directed more towards government-developed software, not explicitly contractors.
I stand corrected.
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#9If I was the software developer forced into this I'd just raise my price knowing I can no longer sell it elsewhere, IF I even agreed to it. That's going to hurt tax payers. It's a catchy title but just doesn't take more than a moments thought to see how it's going to backfire.
Go ahead, take your toys and go home. I don't care if the rent-seekers stop trying to waste my tax dollars - in fact contrary to your implication, this is a feature!
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#10The state I lived in developed one of those covid tracking apps. I asked for the source code and was told it wasn't available and would never be. I talked to people working on other software developed for the state and they all think that software shouldn't be public.
It seems crazy to me that taxpayers pay for this software but it doesn't belong to them.
Knowing what I do know I gotta wonder if it's just about those developers being ashamed how bad their software is and don't want others to see it.