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  • That's good. Every country should do something similar.
    by shevy-java
  • What’s happens after 6 months?
    by andsoitis
  • Related discussion of the maintainer stepping down from libxml2 support. libexpat is a different library of course.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283196

    10 months ago | 119 comments

    Also related:

    https://xkcd.com/2347/

    by kristianp
  • One thing XML is very good for is semantic documents adhering to a well defined schema - and it's one of the few commonly used text-based data storage formats that do it well (with XSD, DTDs are pretty terrible). Unfortunately the only library that currently implements validation is libxml2 - expat is way nicer, but it never supported it. I don't understand why most XML libraries do not implement validation - XML sucks as a plain data storage format anyway.
    by qalmakka
  • > PS: If anyone managed to combine Clang-based MinGW with AddressSanitizer and Wine without crashing at launch, please show me how and drop me an e-mail. Thank you!

    It's for problems like these that I have been working at cross and native Windows support in the Nix ecosystem

    by Ericson2314
  • > The City of Munich follows the principle of Public Money, Public Code: Whenever possible, software developed in-house should be released as open source. The goal is not only to ensure the city’s own IT security but also to enable others to reuse the software securely, transparently, and in a traceable way.[1]

    [1] https://opensource.muenchen.de/security.html

    by warpech
  • https://opensource.muenchen.de/sabbatical.html

    > The Open Source Sabbatical is intended to provide professionally qualified software developers with the opportunity to work on an open source project for a limited period of time in order to improve it.

    > This sabbatical is not only open to employees of the City of Munich, but also to external software developers.

    So cool. Congrats to Sebastian!

    by wxw
  • The longer background is that Christian Ude our mayor until 2014 furthered the LiMux[1] project - migrating more than 14000 PCs in public administration to Linux.

    He got personal visits from both Ballmer and Gates that pressured him to stay with Microsoft[2] but did not balk.

    Unfortunately his successor caved to Microsoft's siren song abolished LiMux and Microsoft got a nice campus in the city (they used to be at the outskirts).

    Since May this year we have the young and energetic Dominik Krause and there is hope for change again.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

    [2] https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2019/10/interview-2/

    by weinzierl

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