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I'm all stoked for publicly funded open-source software, but somehow The EU and most governments seem to be pretty bad at doing this. I recall numerous initiati
by ThePhysicist 6y ago
I'm all stoked for publicly funded open-source software, but somehow The EU and most governments seem to be pretty bad at doing this. I recall numerous initiatives that aimed to create open-source ecosystems with massive amounts of public money (billions of euros for some projects) in the past, each and every one one of them ended up as a big disaster.
The latest attempt at publicly funded software is Gaia-X, the EU's (actually mostly France and Germany's) plan to build a European data infrastructure. I really don't want to be negative but I have a really strong feeling that it will fail as well (of course not before all the money has disappeared).
It would actually be cool to see what a organization like Mozilla could do with a sizeable public grant, they can't possibly spend that money worse than it's being spent now.
- randompwd 6y agoWhy would the EU give even one cent where the C level execs and board members collect cushy pay-cheques and fire the "hard" skilled people? Who appoints the board of Mozilla? What will it take for them to be replaced? Can they even be replaced? It's apparent they're protecting a CEO who in any other organisation would have been canned years ago.
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- sciurus 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164834
- Vinnl 6y ago> In the 2+ years I've been at Mozilla, I think there's been almost complete turnover at the C-level. Interesting. What was the reason for the turnover? Who evaluates their performance?
- jhoechtl 6y agoYeah for some time I had high hopes for FiWare but it turned out it was just subsidies for the tendering companies without ANY real incentive for a sustainable business model past the funding period.