Oh no! Somebody else might benefit from something you would’ve made anyway, at no additional cost to you! The horror!
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Gargantuan@piefed.social 1 day agoso any other country should get free access to the all software the UK tax payer invested in?
nah. I don’t think so.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 23 hours ago
20dogs@feddit.uk 1 day ago
We also get free development and contributions from others.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
And the UK taxpayer might save money by using open source projects funded by other municipality in different countries. This is already the standard for some EU projects.
Could some countries ‘freeload’? Sure. But what’s the actual cost for that? The people in those places getting better software, while the original users are no worse off?
Could also help with less wealthy countries having access to software they couldn’t otherwise afford to develop.