No one person, group, team, company, or co-op can meaningfully improve the sorry state of software if governments won't at least mandate the following:
- Interoperable communication
- Standardized data formats
- Self-serve data import/export
...and that's just scratching the surface.
@victoria this feels like the computering equivalent of building codes, like making sure that a place has exits before it's occupied
@victoria I'm also reminded of all the pseudo-accreditations we'd give to websites in the earlier days of the net- little icons saying that the site is trusted by so and so, or has valid xhtml, or works with the latest netscape. All significantly less meaningful than a guarantee you aren't entering a roach motel.
@scanlime @victoria there is the #4opens criteria for evaluating software or services https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/4opens/wiki
