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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Agencies will have to share custom-developed code amongst each other in an effort to prevent duplicative software development contracts under a new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden.

That's not what open source means.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Are you expecting that regular people will understand what foss means without ever seeing it before? The law is literally named the Securing Open Source Act. By law, code that is not classified must be open source.