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The landscape of funding is shifting. Through Patreon and Google Sponsors, I'm funding developers to work on Linux on the M1 chip, a keyboard driving browser (Q

The landscape of funding is shifting. Through Patreon and Google Sponsors, I'm funding developers to work on Linux on the M1 chip, a keyboard driving browser (Qute) and Linux security (Spectrum OS). As a reminder, Chrome OS is Linux. Google is funding that and some parts of it benefit the rest of Linux. Google has also been working recently to get more improvements that they made to the Linux kernel upstreamed in a more timely fashion. Sway is a great desktop environment for power users that was supported from crowdfunding and with a lot of volunteer help.

diskzero 5y ago
Funding has changed, I agree. I hope that some entity could provide some type of crowd-funded solution for a general purpose desktop environment, but am more than pessimistic. My opinion of Chrome OS is that it is a cancer and I don't want Google anywhere near anything to do with the free software movement. I don't want their kernel pushes, I don't want their libraries and I don't want their opinion. Yes, I am an extremist, but Google and Facebook (and others) are not ethical partners. I have made compromises in the past and they have yielded nothing of value to me. Thank you for funding the work for Linux on M1. That really does matter!