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As a counterexample, pypy and many other free software projects have gotten EU funding. Pypy has in the past been very helpful to me in making my Python code ru
by bjourne 7y ago
As a counterexample, pypy and many other free software projects have gotten EU funding. Pypy has in the past been very helpful to me in making my Python code run faster so I think it was money well spent!
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/index-report.html http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/index-report.html
- nec4b 7y agoI think that you and your peers could afford to use your own money to make your code run faster and the EU money could be used to fund more important stuff.
- Mirioron 7y agoI get where you're coming from, but I actually think that governments probably should fund some open source software projects. Some of those projects are so fundamentally important that basically everyone relies on them, including governments.
- nec4b 7y agoGovernments can buy software which it needs the same way as any one else I don't see a reason why it should pick winners or losers of open source projects.
- bjourne 7y agoIf Pypy would have been commercial software it would have costed $3500 USD per year and server or more. Because that is at least how much Azul Zing costs and Pypy is very comparable to that. https://www.azul.com/products/pricing/ https://www.azul.com/products/pricing/ So I wouldn't have been able to afford that.