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Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

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473 points edent | 2 comments | 23 Apr 25 07:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.461s | source
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mixcocam ◴[23 Apr 25 09:15 UTC] No.43770093[source]▶
There is also a lot of indirect funding in the form of the governments purchasing habits: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-s...

In the EU the size of the state is often bigger than 50% of GDP. What the government buys is very important and means a lot of $$ for projects, consultants and the rest of the open source ecosystem.

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1. fforflo ◴[23 Apr 25 09:25 UTC] No.43770142[source]▶
Except for the fact that big consultancies who receive most of the government contracts, have zero contribution to the open source ecosystem.
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2. mixcocam ◴[23 Apr 25 09:54 UTC] No.43770310[source]▶
When you pay 1000 USD to Microsoft to use o365, how much of that goes to the developers?

The argument of "but very little of that money will go to *actual* development" is not looking at the alternative being used now.