Quinten@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoDutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareSJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThey’ve done a lot of stupid things lately, but this isn’t one of them. Governments should be using open platforms and open source software.
minus-squareKoffiato@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAbsolutely! Using open source software is much cheaper, as well. Hiring developers to work on open source software/OSs would cost less than buying software annually. Governments pay stupid amounts of money for easily replaceable software.
minus-squareCodeMonkeyDance@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoWhy. So they become less secure? Propriatery software has its uses /s
minus-squareFreesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoYes and how is the developer supposed to earn their money when they can’t spy on people and insert ads?!!!!!!!1111
They’ve done a lot of stupid things lately, but this isn’t one of them.
Governments should be using open platforms and open source software.
Absolutely! Using open source software is much cheaper, as well. Hiring developers to work on open source software/OSs would cost less than buying software annually. Governments pay stupid amounts of money for easily replaceable software.
Why. So they become less secure? Propriatery software has its uses /s
Yes and how is the developer supposed to earn their money when they can’t spy on people and insert ads?!!!!!!!1111