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<title>Munich commits to "Public Money? Public Code!"</title>
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<h1>Munich commits to "Public Money? Public Code!"</h1>
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<p>The new coalition agreement in Munich commits to the principle of "Public Money? Public Code!".
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The FSFE welcomes this decision by the new government and will closely monitor the progress of the implementation.</p>
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<p>The coalition of SPD and Greens in Munich agreed on a <a href="https://www.gruene-muenchen.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Druckfassung_Koalitionsvertrag-2020_2026.pdf">
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coalition treaty</a> last Sunday following the local elections in March. It includes a positive statement on the use of Free Software: the
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principle "Public Money? Public Code!" should apply in future. Munich thus joins the FSFE's demand.</p>
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<blockquote><p>The FSFE welcomes the "Public Money? Public Code!" policy by the new Munich government. After the last government
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of SPD and CSU had distanced itself from the prior progressive Free Software strategy this is now a positive signal again. Public
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administrations following the principle of "Public Money? Public Code!" can benefit from collaboration with other public bodies,
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independence from single vendors, potential tax savings, increased innovation, and a better basis for IT security.", says Matthias
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Kirschner, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe.</p></blockquote>
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<p>In 2014, the SPD entered a coalition agreement with the CSU, and Dieter Reiter (SPD) was elected new mayor of Munich.
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Munich abandoned their "LiMux" strategy of developing an independent IT infrastructure built with Free Software and a GNU/Linux
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operating system, and started to move back to depending on proprietary software. The Free Software Foundation Europe
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<a href="/news/2019/news-20190515-01.html">criticised this re-migration in the past</a>. Now, with the new coalition of SPD and Greens,
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Munich seems to be back on the track by its commitment to "Public Money? Public Code!". Still, the treaty leaves room for improvement
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as it includes some typical loopholes such as the vague limitation to software whose code does not contain personal or confidential data.
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Therefore the FSFE will continue to closely monitor the progress of the implementation of the "Public Money, Public Code!" policy and
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how procurement procedures will be handled in future.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/big/20f9c36598c7d41d9e9ae5ab56d0e47d.jpg" alt="Munich city map" />
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</figure>
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<p>The "Public Money? Public Code!" initiative aims to set Free Software as the standard for publicly financed software. The Free
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Software Foundation Europe together with over 180 civil society organisations and more than 27.000 individuals signed the open letter.
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We will use the signatures to contact decision makers and political representatives all over Europe and convince them to make public code
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the standard. You are invited to add your signature to make a bigger impact on <a href="https://publiccode.eu">https://publiccode.eu/</a></p>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="pmpc">Public Money? Public Code!</tag>
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<tag key="public-administration">Public Administration</tag>
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<tag key="policy">Policy</tag>
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<tag key="limux">LiMux</tag>
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</tags>
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<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/467"/>
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<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/big/20f9c36598c7d41d9e9ae5ab56d0e47d.jpg" alt="Munich city map"/>
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</html>
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