Post #2138042
2026-05-04 10:45 UTC
Open Source code doesn't have citizenship, Open Source maintainers do.
Any Digital-whatever story should be a story about people, not code.
Rewriting existing code under a different logo doesn't bring you the sovereignty. It brings you a pile of tech debt, never-ending game of trying to catch up with the project you are rewriting, and isolation.
Sovereignty (and many other good things) comes from creating local distributed _expertise_ in the common shared code base.
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@bookwar@floss.social 2026-05-04 10:47
And yes, it means governments should stop trying to develop code - a thing which they never ever done well. They should do what they actually know how to do - build public institutions, shared standards and requirements. They should invest in free education, knowledge sharing, and communication infrastructure.