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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by dewey on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:53PM (#47170371)
With your strong feelings against VC, I hope you are aware that HN is the message board of one of the leading VC firms?

> but have definitely been one of the primary reasons the wealth gap and inequality have risen and continue to rise

That's a pretty big leap you are doing there.

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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by verdverm on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:00PM (#47170480)
You can click my handle to see I've been a part of the HN community longer than yourself, I'm fully aware of the many associations

I have /rant'd on YC and the dilution of help to their startups after they stopped heeding their own advice to "do things that don't scale"

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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by whit537 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:03PM (#47170524)
> I've been a part of the HN community longer than

Dang, got me beat, too. :) gg

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Re:Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open sourc... by verdverm on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:12PM (#47170634)
It's not a competition, but it is faux pax for GGP to make the comment the way they did. I would hope you all would know that having been here more than a decade
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