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7d ago

Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.

Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects

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who would have thought 🙃

Meanwhile in Mexico:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/

Frankly I'm surprised they fund any of those in the first place. I would have thought F-Droid would be a bit less shit if it has actual employees!

I mean, why would a government benefit from funding something like that? Also no large funding means no fear of doing something that the government won't like. And with the size of anti-Trump movements, it's probably a good thing.
For the record, I still don't really like this decision.
- Ideally government actions should benefit the society at large. Government is not a company, it's a community service for the people.
  
  That will never happen in the US though, at least without major incidents that are beneficial for citizens' personality development (yes it means making people suffer).
- Encryption technology is best done in the open for security reasons
  Linux is a widely used operating system as is all of its GNU components and many other open source projects in that ecosystem are important for national security
  languages like python, rust, etc are open source and generate significant economic innovation.
  Really just a lot of things.
  Are you sure you're in infosec?
  
  I don't see this comment having much to do with mine so I'll consider it a bait.
- "For the record, I still don't like this particular face-eating incident." As if you aren't a leopard enthusiast. Who cares whether you like something?
  
  Because on FOSS social networks if you personally like something that's not leftist, you'll get banned in a week at most.

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