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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by monade on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:49AM (#43770591)
You didn't spot the open hardware tablet in there? There was another announcement made almost simultaneously about funding for a.o. F-Droid:

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250421-project-selection-pilots...

There are many search projects you can find like marginalia.nu and Searx, just not in this call round.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by hello_computer on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:59AM (#43770652)
If you are talking about the MNT reform, that is utterly fatuous. Same with f-droid. These are toys for IT fanboys--nothing that will significantly dislodge Europeans from the US tech teat. Europe needs iOS & Google-tier replacements ASAP. China has Huawei, Xiaomi, Baidu, Alibaba. Even Russia has Yandex & Telegram. Europe has zilch.

I figured that after we were caught bugging Merkel's telephone, Europe would have at least gotten started, but I figured wrong.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by monade on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:05AM (#43771140)
We can agree to disagree on what is meaningful. Especially F-Droid is already widely used, and I would certainly not call it a toy.

You shouldn't rule out the snowball effect of FOSS. The nice thing about this kind of open program is that someone like you that has a beef and a clue can actually propose something, and get a grant to get the party started. After that, communities can kick in.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by dgfitz on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @11:23AM (#43773222)
> Especially F-Droid is already widely used, and I would certainly not call it a toy.

F-Droid does not publish these statistics. How do you know this?

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