FSFE launches a new campaign today: Public Money? Public Code!

[Matthias Kirschner]

Hello Henning,

thanks for that. I really like the short message!

Best Regards,
Matthias

* Henning Jacobs [2017-09-13 19:40 +0200]:
> Public Money, Public Code: Publicly Funded Software Has to Be Free Software
> We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed
> for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open
> Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code
> as well.
> 
> "I can't say how much I support this, it is so obviously a good idea"
> -- https://twitter.com/hanno/status/907904636283224064
> I have nothing to add. Sign the open letter! :-)
> 
> Many organizations (incl. WikiMedia, CCC, KDE, OSI) signed the open
> letter, please sign it too:
> https://publiccode.eu/openletter/
> 
> Press coverage (German):
> *
> http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/public-code-aktivisten-fordern-freie-software-vom-staat-a-1167416.html
> *
> https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kampagne-Public-Code-Software-fuer-die-Verwaltung-soll-frei-sein-3830705.html
> *
> https://netzpolitik.org/2017/kampagne-oeffentliches-geld-oeffentlicher-code/
> 
> Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15236686

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