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by shiroiushi 610 days ago
That sounds great in theory, but I'm extremely skeptical of it working in reality. Do we have any good examples of governments backing significant open-source projects like this, and even worse, in a manner collaborating with other governments? Basically you're asking for the EU to become the main funding source of Mozilla, because it's hard to envision anyone else joining this effort.
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eesmith 610 days ago
I know the German Sovereign Tech Fund is funding some FreeBSD development.

I know Schleswig-Holstein is moving to LibreOffice and believe some of that includes funding.

That I don't know of more is besides the point, which is have they tried?

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shiroiushi 610 days ago
>That I don't know of more is besides the point, which is have they tried?

They haven't lost their funding from Google yet, and the case ruling was only what? a week ago? Did you expect them to see into the future and predict this turn of events or something? I imagine they're very busy talking about this stuff right now, but 6 months ago they probably weren't too worried about suddenly losing their Google funding because of government action.

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eesmith 610 days ago
They've been talking about finding alternatives to being dependent on Google revenue for like a decade or so.
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