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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by smetsjp on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:21AM (#28810096)
There is a presentation at FOSDEM 2021 about FDL: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/fosstaxbreak/

Title: Give open source a (tax) break

Cash that gets into FDL/LEF is then spent to sponsor existing FLOSS projects or to acquire intellectual property rights of existing works and change their license to FLOSS.

Case 1: https://bossanova.uk/jspreadsheet/v4/ got financed partly by FDL/LEF

Case 2: the radio hardware of the Open Radio Station (a 4G/5G vRAN base station based on Amarisoft stack and SlapOS) is in the process of being acquired and released as open source hardware. See https://shop.rapid.space/product_module/241/Resource_viewAsS...

The requirement for PhD is here to ensure that all projects that are financed by FDL/LEF have some kind of general interest or innovation, something which is useful to comply with Tax Law

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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by solarkraft on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:27AM (#28810141)
> ensure that all projects that are financed by FDL/LEF have some kind of general interest or innovation

How does it ensure that?

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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by fermigier on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:52PM (#28811371)
The selection process is described in details here: https://www.fdl-lef.org/process/

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the members of the selection committee. Ask me if you need more clarification).

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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by indymike on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:11AM (#28810524)
So only a PhD can innovate?
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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by fermigier on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:47AM (#28810856)
As stated in my previous comment, the PhD requirement is for sitting on the selection committee only.
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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by indymike on Saturday October 09, 2021 @01:40PM (#28811733)
Is only a PhD is capable of recognizing libre software deserving of support?
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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by fermigier on Saturday October 09, 2021 @01:45PM (#28811769)
Nowhere is it implied that this could be true.
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Re:Libre Endowment Fund: Sustainable Development of Free Sof... by radicalbyte on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:20AM (#28810607)
Well, they have no hope of getting tenure (that budget is needed for administration), so it's good that PhD have another option where they can avoid doing any real work* ;)

* Giving people whose talent is thinking the chance to do that is a good idea. Better than losing that talent to management.

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