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> Their aim is wrong. It would be much better to pay the back wages than pretend it's jubilee just so they can impose strings. Well why don't they just give th
by Closi 5y ago
> Their aim is wrong. It would be much better to pay the back wages than pretend it's jubilee just so they can impose strings.
Well why don't they just give the money to water infrastructure in Africa then? Surely that's a more worthy aim if we get to decide what their aim should be for them? Or their aim could be to help teach coding to the young, that's just as valid.
Their aim is to develop new tech, thus asking people to pitch what they would develop if given funding seems like a sensible approach.
This is also funded by money the German Government has allocated for R&D, so it has also been budgeted for 'new tech' rather than just rewarding historical contributors through donations. If the prototype foundation aimed to reward historical contributions, their current funding likely wouldn't exist, and if they don't show how they contribute towards R&D then the funding won't exist in the future.
Besides, Why is their aim wrong? Should there be no funding for people who want to create new public interest tech?