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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Do we know how much they missed out on total, all of them added together? It would be cool to have a bar to track how much of the shortfall we as supporters could make up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Alright, we step up and financially fill these gaps to the best of our abilities. And I can't help but feel this was a deliberate swipe at suppressing speech and info sharing while him and his toadies blow everything up.

https://f-droid.org/donate/

https://donate.torproject.org/

https://letsencrypt.org/donate/

https://tails.net/donate/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's simpler than that. I think they don't understand or see value in FOSS, so they're happy to cut it.

I do, so I'm going willing to help donate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Stupidity sounds like the more likely option, but I bet if they knew what the grants were for, they'd be cut out of malice instead. Lose-lose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's simper than that. They don't see the value in freedom, autonomy, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Treason wouldn't