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The state uses an enormous amount of open source software. Ironically it can be really hard to donate to OSS from government entities. It's actually easy to p
by sien 5y ago
The state uses an enormous amount of open source software.
Ironically it can be really hard to donate to OSS from government entities.
It's actually easy to pay someone for software, but for all these libraries and technologies that are used it's really hard bureaucratically to say, donate $2K a year. Which is still a fraction of the value gained from open source for most places.
- amelius 5y agoI'm not thinking about donations, though. I'm thinking about structural funding, like how science is funded.