It would be nice if all software produced at government agencies would be available as open source applications for download. Then another agency trying to solve a similar problem or a company trying to write similar software could base their work on these open source apps. After all, that software is written with tax money and should be available to save tax money in other places or to be used by the tax payers if they wish to.
Like it or not, there is a tax treaty between Switzerland and America ( www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/swiss.pdf ). It clearly defines in what cases the USA or Switzerland can get information from each other regarding taxes and it deals with double taxation. The agreement is between the two countries, so if the USA doesn't like it, why did it agree to it in the first place and why are we not discussing renegotiation of the agreement?
I'd really like to see a policy that not only consumes open source projects but at the same time makes sure that all development done for any government is committed as open source (because it belongs to the people that paid for it in the first place, the tax payer). This would in my opinion drastically reduce the cost for local governments because it would allow applications written for one city/state/country to be used and adopted by other entities too. After all, a budgeting software for one county could also be used in the next county... and maybe a state and then some state adds a function that does a sanity check on the budget and maybe we can get them balanced then...
where can I get the custom accounting application or budgeting application the state had written for them? Would be nice if somebody could provide a link or a how to do this.
It would be nice if the government would start open sourcing all software projects developed within or for the government. It should be possible to cut development cost (states ultimately share the source code of some of their projects) and the projects payed by the people would be for the people.
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It would be nice if all software produced at government agencies would be available as open source applications for download. Then another agency trying to solve a similar problem or a company trying to write similar software could base their work on these open source apps. After all, that software is written with tax money and should be available to save tax money in other places or to be used by the tax payers if they wish to.
Like it or not, there is a tax treaty between Switzerland and America ( www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/swiss.pdf ). It clearly defines in what cases the USA or Switzerland can get information from each other regarding taxes and it deals with double taxation. The agreement is between the two countries, so if the USA doesn't like it, why did it agree to it in the first place and why are we not discussing renegotiation of the agreement?
I'd really like to see a policy that not only consumes open source projects but at the same time makes sure that all development done for any government is committed as open source (because it belongs to the people that paid for it in the first place, the tax payer). This would in my opinion drastically reduce the cost for local governments because it would allow applications written for one city/state/country to be used and adopted by other entities too. After all, a budgeting software for one county could also be used in the next county... and maybe a state and then some state adds a function that does a sanity check on the budget and maybe we can get them balanced then...
where can I get the custom accounting application or budgeting application the state had written for them? Would be nice if somebody could provide a link or a how to do this.
funny - but yes, I would like all states to share their tax software instead of have one developed per state.
It would be nice if the government would start open sourcing all software projects developed within or for the government. It should be possible to cut development cost (states ultimately share the source code of some of their projects) and the projects payed by the people would be for the people.