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"Importantly, the POSE program is not intended to fund the development of open-source research products, including tools and artifacts. The POSE program is also
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
"Importantly, the POSE program is not intended to fund the development of open-source research products, including tools and artifacts. The POSE program is also not intended to fund existing well-resourced open-source communities and ecosystems. Instead, the program aims to fund new managing organizations that catalyze community-driven development and growth of the subject OSEs."
- techdragon 5y agoGreat, just what we need, a 21 million dollar fund for new middle management and bureaucracy that will “catalyse community-driven development” This is fucking stupid. Should have just split the money and give chunks to the Apache, *BSD, Linux, Python Software, and Rust foundations depending on just what sort of development work they wanted to foster. This is the software funding equivalent of those charities where only 10% of the donation money ends up actually doing the job it was donated for. Be it sick kids or starving kids or digging wells, this kind of wasteful abstraction is rife in the charity/donation world and it’s a damn shame to see it starting to happen in the world of software funding.