Some Approaches to Funding Open Source Software Development

This looks like some ideas could start connecting together soon:

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This story started on ZDNET: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source and got picked up on Yahoo News: Tom's Hardware: Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software and garbled some more.

See this post of 30 May 2024 Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone. It looks to me like the law applies to software development funded by the Swiss Federal Government. I don't see any prohibition on paying for packaged proprietary software. See Bundesgesetz über den Einsatz elektronischer Mittel zur Erfüllung von Behördenaufgaben.

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