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Publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. (publiccode.eu)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Implement legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.” Take action here :

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Opinion: same thing should apply to other R&D too. You make a drug or vaccine using government money then you are limited to cost+ (meaning a small profit). Shortly after recouping your investment and a small profit the medicine becomes a generic and you have to compete on price for sales.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I completely agree with you