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How companies are sponsoring OSS (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Sovereign Tech Fund

Open source is, depending on how you look at it, either a public good or a common pool resource. With common pool resources, that's where you get into the commons and it essentially is like a quasi governmental thing. So this is kind of my potstaring question. Will open source ever be truly sustainably funded without going to that kind of quasi governmental, some sort of like sweeps the industry? I just learned about this last week. We did a session last week together online and learned about the sovereign tech fund. 11.5 million euro for open source projects. Is that for the year? Does anybody know? I didn't think I believe that's for the year. That

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