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systematical on Sept 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

I was given some nebulous answer and well I have my own OSS projects on the side that I care more about so I don't care to push that. WTS. I would be happy to do the last mile on my own, but I am not going to fight for it. It should instead be encouraged buts its not. So here we are. I have good contributions to make but don't. Some good OSS projects losing out and by a thin proxy, many other three letter agencies.

The most I do is contribute to OSS documentation on gov time and just don't bring it up. Also fix issues by replying to issues since thats not code.

executesorder66 on Sept 15, 2020 [–]

Well I'd say it would be totally worth it to push back on that and insist that you be allowed to merge your stuff upstream.

Even if it's for no other reason than ease of maintenance, so you don't have to keep merging upstream to your fork.

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