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Lets encrypt could run a patreon and stay funded. Plenty of people with money depend on them.
we shouldn't need the government also we have made it fairly far
While it sucks that FOSS projects will have their funding sapped, let's remember why the open source model is used in the first place: it can't be bought. If it goes down, someone will just fork the last known repository and have it up and running again.
I didn't know that the government was funding these things to begin with, but I don't know many things.
I also didn't know this, but really we should all be putting money behind FOSS (myself included). We don't need billionaires.
So I guess funds were cut, but then the courts ruled the president doesn't have authority to do this himself since the funds were allocated by congress, and so as of now they have been restored, although congress needs to approve them every year and there's concern they might not do so for next year.
Until Trump ignores court orders and cuts funding anyway.
Supreme Court will probably rule that while congress has the power of the purse, the president has the power of canceling the credit cards in the wallet, because fuck you that's why
Well, this is what the relevant part of the video says:
USAGM disbursed $7.5M to these entities, in "what seemed to be an effort to delay the hearing or woo the judge". Regardless, the latter has sided against USAGM, and just a few days ago, the agency has decided to back off and release the funds for the 2025 fiscal year.
Urgh this is so backwards.
Governments need to fund more FOSS not less!
Hopefully the EU can increase its support to compensate.
They are in order to get away from American products
I thought the EU was reducing funding to FOSS projects and investing more into AI. I could've sworn I read that somewhere last year.
Edit: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/
I think it was this event that I read.
Foss is free, and this guy is all about making the American people pay more money to his rich buddies
He's doing a suck job of it. The things he's gutting are pennies towards his dark-souled oligarch masters. Cutting small government projects like the NEA, PBS or like FOSS grants is only used as an appeal to fiscal responsibility conservatives that aren't willing to cut into old-people benefits like Social Security and military sacred cows. Not because gutting tiny projects does anything useful, rather it gives the vibe that representatives are doing something.
This is an appeal to the imbicile MAGA though the tech bros might have specific FOSS projects that compete with their own commercial offerings. Not enough to cut all FOSS grants, though.
A great opportunity for China to get into open source
They open sourced deepseek and the US government banned it 😭😭 even universities are barred from using it
Funny reading westoid commenters here bashing China for being "authoritarian" when it literally open sourced a groundbreaking innovation a month ago. Washingtobot crackers
Why does that exclude the Chinese government from being authoritarian?
China is authoritarian just like every other state in the world. Except that it's also a whole-process people's democracy unlike the W🤮st
FLOSS projects can only be sustainable if their are enough shared interests able to support it through contributions of all kinds. Fortunately the code is free so that constellation of support can change over time. It's a shame this particular line of government funding is coming to an end but others can help.
I really appreciate that there's a text version for those of us who can't or won't use videos! Thank you so much for sharing it, too. 💙
EFF should GTFOutta US and set up shop in a safer region.
I was going to suggest Canada or Greenland...
We need them here now more then ever unfortunately. But yeah, stay safe and spread out for sure.
They're the only thing I wear tee shirts for, have stickers all over my gear, and talk about way too often. Underappreciated champions of the people and nobody outside of these kinds of circles knows who the hell they are.
That would be good for government to cut funding. Users should give away their own cash to support the projects.
Funders of any project can influence decisions, but users giving from their own personal money can keep open source software free from any influences.
One of the expressed reasons for cutting funding to PBS and NPR (via the Corp. for Public Broadcasting) is because they can’t influence what is being said by those entities.
One cannot influence what no longer exists. *tapsforehead
But sadly in reality it means these projects will most likely go underfunded