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summary: Shareable published an extensive interview with me about the FSFE's Public Money, Public Code campaign. I explained why publicly funded software should be released as Open Source, the benefits for transparency, security and collaboration, and how cities like Barcelona are leading with 70% of their software budget spent on Open Source.
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The benefits are manifold: saving time, reducing costs, more collaboration, transparency, interoperability, innovation, and independence from software vendors. On the often-cited security concerns, I explained:
> It's actually better for security if software is transparent and the source code is published, because it's easier for security experts to see what's going wrong in the software. Malicious people will figure it out anyway, but more people can review the code. We've seen this with Linux. It is stable, secure and transparent, and we don't see a disadvantage in the fact that it's open-source.
> It's actually better for security if software is transparent and the source code is published, because it's easier for security experts to see what's going wrong in the software. Malicious people will figure it out anyway, but more people can review the code. We've seen this with Linux. It is stable, secure and transparent, and we don't see a disadvantage in the fact that it's Open Source.
I highlighted Barcelona as a role model, spending 70% of its software budget on Open Source and understanding it's not just about using Free Software, but procuring it in ways that allow regional and smaller vendors to participate.