France becomes the first government to support UN Open source principles

One giant leap, for humanity and technology, France becomes the first government to endorse UN Open source principles.

As of writing this article, France has become the first country in the world to support the UN’s principles of open source software alongside with many other organizations. This is a very huge milestone for open-source advocates, as the goal of open source software is now put in a national status in the presence of France supporting the principles of open source software. If more countries come on board on the Open Source train, we may possibly see a renaissance of open software in the near future, especially with the recent disdain with current software made by Microsoft and Apple present in the current media, and even with governments too, as they switch from software like Microsoft Word, to open source alternatives like Libreoffice. 

The goal of open source software, compared to proprietary software, is to enable the average user to access the codebase of the software, to make fixes and configurations that seem fit to the user.  Although one may believe that open source is dangerous because people can change the codebase, and possibly add viruses, it really isn’t because open source software goes through many checks by many different coders, when a user puts a change, or a “commit” onto the software, in the distribution platform. By doing this, open source software is more stable, and safer for the ordinary user.

As many more countries take note of this, open source software may become more widespread, than for-profit software.