Huh. Do government projects ever release their blueprints or code or whatever under open source? :/
@Angle yeah, quite a lot, depending on the project and the government. you'd be surprised what kind of orgs have a github: https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency
@aeonofdiscord @Angle Holy crap, really? .-.;;
Well, colour me corrected!!
@aeonofdiscord @Angle Ofc not! I suppose that's where what I said comes in handy.
@Angle one prominent example is Tor, which started as a US Navy project afaik
@aeonofdiscord @Angle Huh. Well, thanks for educating us! ^_^ #TheMoreYouKnow
@aeonofdiscord @vantablack @Angle another one is selinux which is less well known but also extremely widespread
@Angle Rarely, but there are people in e.g. the European parliament working to mandate that projects receiving public funding have to lay open their source code in some way
@Angle
Some governments, some depts definitely! I'd say "mixed" overall tho. Like other users.
@Angle Can you imagine the bureaucratic clusterfuck *that* would entail?
@Quinntessential Yeah, though apparently it happens anyway? See other comments. :/
@Angle Well blow me down.
@Angle Everything developed by the US government is supposed to be released to public domain. However, a lot is purchased from private contractors who don't do so. There's a lot of public repos on .gov sites, but no one index.
@Angle I'll have to ask Kali about that, she'll know.
@LWFlouisa This question was actually already answered in detail, see the other responses. XD
@Angle all works by the Federal US government are public domain
@Angle yes, apparently US government projects are public. I know of Vista for example, which is on Github. https://github.com/OSEHRA/VistA
@Angle also, the Singapore government open sources a lot of their projects. Here's an example. https://www.tech.gov.sg/Media-Room/Media-Releases/2017/09/Government-to-open-source-Beeline-platform-code-to-catalyse-industry-and-public-innovation
@Angle I imagine many of them would rather keep them close to their hearts in order to "preserve national security" or some related rubbish.
The Internet as we know it today began as an American military networking project in the 1960s. It took until the 1970s for the public to begin utilising very basic networking tools as a whole. And it took until 1995 for the infrastructure designed by the government to be fully released to the public.
Governments in this world like secrets. :/