I explicitly said FOSS. Any one can fork. How can I better make that point?
My motivation: my county invests in its own election management system (GIS, VRDB, ballot production, tabulation, report generation, etc). I demand that this entire stack is available to everyone for any purpose. Especially other counties that want an alternative to proprietary stacks hidden behind trade secrets, copyrights, and onerous EULAs.
Is this not what you want too?
> ...it sounds like you're suggesting that "we" would be limited to a specific group and centralized control.
"We" the citizens implies "everyone".
But more to your point, what are some examples of FOSS which are not de facto centralized?
Citizen-owned software.
I explicitly said FOSS. Any one can fork. How can I better make that point?
My motivation: my county invests in its own election management system (GIS, VRDB, ballot production, tabulation, report generation, etc). I demand that this entire stack is available to everyone for any purpose. Especially other counties that want an alternative to proprietary stacks hidden behind trade secrets, copyrights, and onerous EULAs.
Is this not what you want too?
> ...it sounds like you're suggesting that "we" would be limited to a specific group and centralized control.
"We" the citizens implies "everyone".
But more to your point, what are some examples of FOSS which are not de facto centralized?
I refer you to RMS' Four Freedoms. https://openedreader.org/chapter/stallmans-four-freedom/
A good start. I reiterate that FOSS is necessary but insufficient for citizen-owned software.