Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/STF-Two-Years-24.9M-USD

[mirmirmir]

Based German govt. They should be more proud of their nationality.

[uid313]

I would love to see investments in GIMP.
At one point in time I would have liked to see investments in LibreOffice but nowadays I feel like LibreOffice is beyond salvation, I no longer have any interest in it.

I would also like to see OpenSSH in Rust and passkeys in GNOME and biometric authentication via fingerprint or facial recognition in GNOME. Maybe it would be nice if you use fingerprint authentication prompt when using sudo in GNOME Console,

I would also like to see more sandboxing of software that deals with common internet files such as PDF, images and videos. Things like email clients, media players and office suites.

[Anux]

I thought he spoke about the German, not the Russian govt.

Is there a difference? Oh well the Russians are already in a war.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

biometric authentication via fingerprint or facial recognition in GNOME. Maybe it would be nice if you use fingerprint authentication prompt when using sudo in GNOME Console,

I would ask if you've attempted the things you ask for, but I already know the answer.

[hf_139]

What did the 1 Million $ this fund poured into the GNOME Foundation achieve?

[Anux]

You seem to live in a parallel universe...

Parallel to what? Your universe? Is it better there, can I somehow change the universe or would all the problems and corruption just follow me into your universe?

[mrg666]

Good for Germany ... and the whole world. Open source software development is less driven by private interests and profit margins but driven more by efficiency and progress.

[Danny3]

And at the same time they avoided at all costs to support in any way the Germany-based organizations like KDE and SUSE!
Both of them which makes awesome open source projects!

At least they gave some money to FFmpeg, so I cannot consider that it has a totally bad leadership.
So congrats to them and many thanks for that!

[Gabbb]

I would love to see investments in GIMP.
At one point in time I would have liked to see investments in LibreOffice but nowadays I feel like LibreOffice is beyond salvation, I no longer have any interest in it.

My opinion is the opposite, I like using LibreOffice I think it's great, but on the other hand I consider gimp being very close to beyond salvation.