In Belgium we have a similar system, also fully open source. It’s pretty cool that different countries are going to be using the same system soon.
The only thing that worries me is that the EU has this habit of creating open source libraries and releasing it under a permissive license, which is then incorporated in proprietary apps. This also happened with the corona contact tracing. Germany made their app open source, Belgium didn’t, but I could just use the German app instead.
Another example is the Belgian eID stuff. Anything government related uses the open source tech, but ISPs and banks made their own proprietary app that does the same thing, and then everyone started using this crap. Now, the government started paying a third party to make yet another proprietary app that does the same thing, but no one cares about it or uses it.
Yeah. This happened in Latvia (Poland too). Everything surrounding the e signature is proprietary and garbage. If you look at the source code for the drivers, they took GPL code trashed it and made it effectively proprietary.
Estonia is good about open sourcing it seems.
I think there needs to be a push to mandate this as open source based on some kind of access to information act. Public money shouldn’t be funneled into proprietary trash imo.
In Belgium we have a similar system, also fully open source. It’s pretty cool that different countries are going to be using the same system soon.
The only thing that worries me is that the EU has this habit of creating open source libraries and releasing it under a permissive license, which is then incorporated in proprietary apps. This also happened with the corona contact tracing. Germany made their app open source, Belgium didn’t, but I could just use the German app instead.
Another example is the Belgian eID stuff. Anything government related uses the open source tech, but ISPs and banks made their own proprietary app that does the same thing, and then everyone started using this crap. Now, the government started paying a third party to make yet another proprietary app that does the same thing, but no one cares about it or uses it.
Yeah. This happened in Latvia (Poland too). Everything surrounding the e signature is proprietary and garbage. If you look at the source code for the drivers, they took GPL code trashed it and made it effectively proprietary.
Estonia is good about open sourcing it seems.
I think there needs to be a push to mandate this as open source based on some kind of access to information act. Public money shouldn’t be funneled into proprietary trash imo.
There was a movement Public Money, Public Code at some point, but I have lost track of it.
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