Gregory's Server@sjvn @sjvn I have seen a lot of posts asserting that and they all leave out a major loophole: doesn’t apply to 3rd party software and has no provision discouraging 3rd party software.
We tried something similar at NASA by agency mandate in the 80s. A lot of creativity went into discovering reasons why a project had to use 3rd party resulting in no discernible increase in OSS.
I hope Switzerland has a better result but without mandates I doubt it will.
@MartyFouts @sjvn this is indeed correct.
I don't think this is about increasing OSS usage increase at all.
We voted this for transparency mostly.
And because it's Swiss citizens taxes that build the software, it's therefore normal that any Swiss citizen can audit it and use it.
Specially across our cantons (states)