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Re:EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing... by imjonse on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:25PM (#35817985)
Lucky for us, otherwise instead of the free/open source software of the past decades we'd only have open core and similarly crippled offerings only :)

More seriously, the motivations behind open source projects and startups are completely different, it's just the end result being software makes them seem interchangeable. Open source software should be a public service and receive public funding ideally like most infrastructure that is essential for civilization.

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Re:EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing... by marginalia_nu on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:34PM (#35818134)
In terms of putting food on the table, it doesn't really matter how you run it. If you're accepting donations or charging customers, you still gotta pay your taxes.
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