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How many institutionally critical projects are run by solitary figures out of pure goodwill? There seems to be an obvious need for a foundation to find-and-fund
by fsloth 10y ago
How many institutionally critical projects are run by solitary figures out of pure goodwill? There seems to be an obvious need for a foundation to find-and-fund critical projects like this so they don't go into oblivion.
- a3n 10y agoThere was the timezone thing a few years back, but I think that was resolved, according to some definition of resolved. But that wasn't about lack of support, more a legal attack on the maintainer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#History
- digi_owl 10y agoNote that the blog mentions that he is being sued in India, and the recent DDOS is just the straw that's breaking the camel.
- exolymph 10y agoNadia Eghbal has been working on this: https://medium.com/@nayafia/funding-digital-infrastructure-8b1bf8b8e4cb#.z74y27gak https://medium.com/@nayafia/funding-digital-infrastructure-8...
- alxmdev 10y agoOne example that jumps to mind are all the documents and man pages hosted on die.net (http://linux.die.net/ http://linux.die.net/)
- cuckcuckspruce 10y agoThis seems like something that the ISC[1] should handle. [1] https://www.isc.org/mission/ https://www.isc.org/mission/