This is an awful lot of fanfare for the open sourcing of something that was funded with public money by the government of Australia, using open source tools and technologies. Why isn't it already open source?
In general, I would like to see more software developed with public research funding required to be open source as part of the grant stipulation, ideally from early on. Too often tax-payer money is used to develop software which then ends up being closed source and providing profit to some commercial entity, instead of benefiting, you know, the people who payed for it – the public.
In general, I would like to see more software developed with public research funding required to be open source as part of the grant stipulation, ideally from early on. Too often tax-payer money is used to develop software which then ends up being closed source and providing profit to some commercial entity, instead of benefiting, you know, the people who payed for it – the public.