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Is there an argument to mandate code be open sourced?

It would probably be a fucking shit show for months, but I feel like long term it would be a huge benefit to society and for freedom

The government can keep military shit closed sourced obviously
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Adarnit 2y ago

Code has been ruled as free speech by the US Supreme Court. So the First Amendment already mandates open source by virtue of it being open speech

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T 2y ago

That’s not how it works

Free speech =/ private speech.

Unsure if you could argue “trade secret” with code, but I imagine companies keep code private for competitive edge. That’s understandable