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Re:The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. by nec4b on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:58AM (#21439704)
I think that you and your peers could afford to use your own money to make your code run faster and the EU money could be used to fund more important stuff.
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Re:The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. by bjourne on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:33AM (#21453238)
If Pypy would have been commercial software it would have costed $3500 USD per year and server or more. Because that is at least how much Azul Zing costs and Pypy is very comparable to that. https://www.azul.com/products/pricing/ So I wouldn't have been able to afford that.
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Re:The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. by Mirioron on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:10AM (#21439765)
I get where you're coming from, but I actually think that governments probably should fund some open source software projects. Some of those projects are so fundamentally important that basically everyone relies on them, including governments.
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Re:The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. by nec4b on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:51AM (#21443486)
Governments can buy software which it needs the same way as any one else I don't see a reason why it should pick winners or losers of open source projects.
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