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

[hsci]

STF

The only critic I have?
Much less should be spend for proprietary software and much more for STF.

Every cent for proprietary software is lost an usually used harmful against their users.
Every cent for open-source improves self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

I would love to see a extension of supported projects.

Yes but they sent money to gnome instead of kde which is catastrophic failure

[ⲣⲂaggins]

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

Certainly not on paying devs to work on GTK's cross-platform compatibiity, an area that GTK4 is direly in need of:

All the backends are basically up to community members to maintain; it's just that you'll find more Wayland/X11 devs than macOS ones
...
Most paid dev work is done by companies, not for GNOME; and since GNOME doesn't work on macOS, it's not like the Foundation can sponsor people for the task
...
I'm always flabbergasted at people coming over and a) thinking GTK is a crossplatform toolkit and b) thinking they can consider GTK as a blackbox
GTK is a Linux-first, portable toolkit

This is from a toolkit that advertises itself as "portable".

[extremesquared]

Some of the things the EU has been getting up to... I worry they'll need to move onto the onions if they want to keep this up without restriction.

[DanL]

And yet you have no problem posting over 3000 times and reading God knows how many posts.

I was younger and more naive then.

[sophisticles]

This effort backed by the German government has provided nearly $25 million USD in open-source funding over the past two years. In this time there has been more than 500 submissions proposing over €114 million in work.

Basically less than one quarter of every Euro requested has been granted.

I guess the usual response is: "No soup for you"!

Or maybe it's: "Only a small bowl of soup for you!"

[sophisticles]

Datamining public sources is a must for police and intelligence. If you don't want your profile checked, don't post.

I agree with this, it's not just law enforcement and the intelligence community that data mine public sources, it's literally everyone that wants to sell you something.

[sophisticles]

And this is why Phoronix forum sucks

And yet you have no problem posting over 3000 times and reading God knows how many posts.

Imagine if it didn't suck.

[anda_skoa]

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!

Are you sure either organization applied for any of the open categories?

Without such an application is it more as if they have avoided getting funded

[mirmirmir]

Actually I found the phrase "They should be more proud of their nationality" super funny because the last time we were proud of our nationality the whole world was pissed.

That's what Im aiming for.

S/he hijacked the topic from STF to concentration camps, so yes. And this is why Phoronix forum sucks - Little moderation, too many trolls, repetitive "holy" wars, and people who couldn't stay on topic if their life depended on it.

S/he hijacked using edgy topic as sarcasm to avoid monotonous topic. Because s/he knows certain loud group, would whine, or kids would call it "copemaxxing"

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