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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by ptero on Monday August 01, 2016 @08:07AM (#12201734)
Maybe there is a definition mismatch, but I (as I suspect many/most of other folks working in tech) do throwaway prototypes all the time. For pretty much any tech project, personal or professional, I aim to use 10-30% of time to try 2-4 different approaches in a very rough form to see what works and what does not.

Maybe though this is not what one would call a prototype in the context of the article (which might imply a more finished product).

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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by Xylakant on Monday August 01, 2016 @08:22AM (#12201794)
There's a definition mismatch: The funding is intended to build a working prototype as in "this is not fully functioning and polished software, but demoable". You'd probably not build and then trash 6 month of prototype.
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