You’ve never worked for the federal government have you? They just don’t have the expertise to setup something like that, at least not at most agencies.
The people exist in the govt to make this happen, I assure you.
We’re all over the place.
THAT SAID there is distinct value in paying for a service and being provided guarantees by the vendor.
It would be tremendous cost to switch over to FOSS systems from the ecosystem that currently exists and unfortunately it’s difficult to get buy-in from anyone on either side of the aisle to approve projects on this scale.
You’ve never worked for the federal government have you? They just don’t have the expertise to setup something like that, at least not at most agencies.
The people exist in the govt to make this happen, I assure you.
We’re all over the place.
THAT SAID there is distinct value in paying for a service and being provided guarantees by the vendor.
It would be tremendous cost to switch over to FOSS systems from the ecosystem that currently exists and unfortunately it’s difficult to get buy-in from anyone on either side of the aisle to approve projects on this scale.
They should request private sector to write offers for produce the software and state in the contract that sources have to be FOSS
https://news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-open-source/