Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

I see no mention of the core projects which have been maintained and being used for decades. xz, libexpat, openzfs, NetworkManager and way too many tiny projects which glue the entire linux system. That's how you start to reclaim the open internet. Where is pihole, who is trying to debloat the web? Where is dnsmasq, which is most widely used dns server?

The sovereign tech fund is doing precisely that: Funding critical infrastructure projects. NLnet is also helping in the effort as far as i'm aware, as are some other organizations. Even some companies are chipping in. There is of course always a lot left to do.

Also: who is working to usurp the free web and bloat it further. Examples being: DoH, cert-pinning, VMs inside apps (TikTok) and those advertising ID things that Google and Mozilla pushed.

From the looks of it, it doesn't seem enough. EU just doesn't have enough money to make this all viable. US is the only country with enough funding resources for quite a lot of critical and over-looked projects

They did provide funding to dnsmasq: https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/1.html

And DNSvizor: https://nlnet.nl/project/DNSvizor

> They did provide funding to dnsmasq: https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/1.html

You just reminded me that I need to make a donation to `dnsmasq`. I rely on it every single day (including for a couple critical projects and it has never failed me) and I’ve yet to donate anything to the project. I feel a bit guilty about that!

Governments employ millions of people, money is absolutely not a limitation.

You are not the worst. There are people who take OSS for granted and demand absolutely ridiculous things from the maintainers as if they owe them something

Cloudflare?