Bulgaria Went Open Source: The Revisit After 7 Years
7 years ago Bulgaria decided to open source software. We’ll visit Bulgaria to check the progress to discover some interesting things
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Seven years ago Bulgaria went open source. The law introduced in 2016 obligated public entities to open source all software made on permissive licences.
After the news broke out there was a lot of discussions in the tech community ranging from enthusiasm from open source representatives, and not only, but also criticism from people who were worried about making public software government agencies.
It was a long seven years. In that single year we lost Prince, David Bowie and George Michel.
But since that time there were also good things, we discovered Proxima b centauri, a likely habitable planet just 4 lightyears from us, we noticed we destroy planet, built a recyclable rockets, flying and back flipping robots, weak AI just to name a few.
