@neil Yes. In essence, advocacy to gov't to recognise the core role #FOSS plays already (even as a component in most proprietary software), and advocacy against the gov't's current practice of outsourcing (i.e. abdicating) all tech responsibility to rapacious US corporations who will never work in the public interest due to their fundamental nature & broken structure.
There is the "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign, that could use some more signatures: https://publiccode.eu/openletter/
@neil wrote:
> Do I benchmark against a piece of software's non-FOSS alternatives?
No, you don't. The FOSS alternative has an advantage that you cannot really put a price on: freedom. It always deserves support over non-FOSS alternatives, regardless of any benchmark result. Also, the FOSS program will anyway likely perform better later on, thanks to your support.
