Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by udev4096 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:52AM (#43771549)

I see no mention of the core projects which have been maintained and being used for decades. xz, libexpat, openzfs, NetworkManager and way too many tiny projects which glue the entire linux system. That's how you start to reclaim the open internet. Where is pihole, who is trying to debloat the web? Where is dnsmasq, which is most widely used dns server?

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by monade on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:10AM (#43771745)

They did provide funding to dnsmasq: https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/1.html

And DNSvizor: https://nlnet.nl/project/DNSvizor

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by jay-barronville on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:22AM (#43771870)

> They did provide funding to dnsmasq: https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/1.html

You just reminded me that I need to make a donation to `dnsmasq`. I rely on it every single day (including for a couple critical projects and it has never failed me) and I’ve yet to donate anything to the project. I feel a bit guilty about that!

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by udev4096 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:56AM (#43772263)

You are not the worst. There are people who take OSS for granted and demand absolutely ridiculous things from the maintainers as if they owe them something

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by Tepix on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:00AM (#43771650)

The sovereign tech fund is doing precisely that: Funding critical infrastructure projects. NLnet is also helping in the effort as far as i'm aware, as are some other organizations. Even some companies are chipping in. There is of course always a lot left to do.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by udev4096 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:08AM (#43771725)

From the looks of it, it doesn't seem enough. EU just doesn't have enough money to make this all viable. US is the only country with enough funding resources for quite a lot of critical and over-looked projects

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by zja on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:46AM (#43772151)

Governments employ millions of people, money is absolutely not a limitation.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by zo1 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:04AM (#43771689)

Also: who is working to usurp the free web and bloat it further. Examples being: DoH, cert-pinning, VMs inside apps (TikTok) and those advertising ID things that Google and Mozilla pushed.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by orthecreedence on Friday April 25, 2025 @12:07PM (#43795191)

Cloudflare?

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