Jan Ainali, codebase steward at the Foundation for Public Code Infrastructure, noted that even if the software is built on open source packages, it may contain layers of proprietary technology. 'We think that it's an absolute necessity of public sector governance to have technological sovereignty, so that policymakers can shape the function of public software just like they can shape legally formulated policies,' he said.
The legislative change was sent to the tax authority, which tried to put zero in the relevant VAT field of the tax software it uses. 'The software didn't accept it,' he said. 'It was proprietary software and it wasn't very easy to change it.'
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