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The European Commission is Making its Software Open Source To Benefit Society
| Commenting on the new rules, Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn said:
“Open source offers great advantages in a domain where the EU can have a leading role. The new rules will increase transparency and help the Commission, as well as citizens, companies and public services across Europe, benefit from open source software development. -
| - Pooling of efforts to improve the software and the co-creation of new features lowers costs for the society, as we also benefit from the improvements made by other developers. This can also enhance security as external and independent specialists check software for bugs and security flaws.”
| https://www.neowin.net/news/the-european-commission-is-making-its-software-open-source-to-benefit-society/
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and
| About time we head towards an open source future.
| Europe is kinda nice sometimes.
I wish my country would be like the nordic ones.
| OPEN SOURCE? Damn Europe is so communistic
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| The decision follows a Commission study that found investment in open source software leads on average to four times higher returns. There has also been a push for this type of action from the Public Money, Public Code campaign.
The introduction of these rules comes just a week after the new German government said it will embrace the notion of Public Money, Public Code. As time goes on, we could see other European countries follow suit and open source their code too.