downloading the app was very simple. I didn’t need to set up an account, or any of that nonsense
Ya love to see it
I presume this £4m app paid for by the public purse is open source so that we can all see and benefit from it? Anyone got a link?
why would that mean it has to be open source? Should we be open sourcing all our defece projects too?
Yes.
(You …do know you can open the source without losing all your secrets, right? Right?)
It’s a transport app. Not the code to the nuclear defences.
that’s not my point. it’s the assumption that anything tax payer funded should be open source by default.
as a tax payer, I’m not sure I want other countries freeloading on our investments.
Then it dies as an investment, relegated to the halls of decay like other closed source apps as soon as it loses relevance
Maybe you should only use it based on how much you paid/contributed. You don’t want to free load off other tax payer’s money
as a tax payer, I’m not sure I want other countries freeloading on our investments.
Ugh. Money is a curse
I do, when those investments can be copied for free
“You wouldn’t steal a car”, but if you could download one from the internet the world would be a better place.
as a tax payer, I’m not sure I want other countries freeloading on our investments.
Ugh. Money is a curse
Security by obscurity doesn’t exist, so perhaps yes.
Open source defeces projects do sounds pretty shit.
Proprietary app, run by Trafi, a company that advertises itself as selling “mobility as a service”.
No thanks.
Wouldn’t doubt it’s just an enshittified frontend to Google Maps.
Good work. Less reliance on american shite, labour council doing something that benefits british people, using public funds to fund public benefitting programs. In Kent however under Reform they invented 40 million of savings and spent over one third of the cost to create this app (1.5million) on a single private car park for themselves.
A new £4m transport app […] which has now been downloaded more than 5,000 times
I know it has to start somewhere, but still, I can’t help being tickled that it’s currently costing £800 per user.
Link to the app since it wasn’t directly linked in the article.
