> The sovereign tech fund (from Germany) is a good idea. Isn't it a non-idea? I'm seeing articles saying they spend order of magnitude single digit million dol

> The sovereign tech fund (from Germany) is a good idea. Isn't it a non-idea? I'm seeing articles saying they spend order of magnitude single digit million dollars [0]. That doesn't sound like it'd be enough to cover the costs of much. Just look at the list of maintainers of the linux kernel, for example [1]. Germany would be doing much better if they had a few big software corporations, they tend to contribute more money voluntarily. They should focus on cutting back red tape and fostering some entrepreneurship. > It was good and accelerated literally everything. This position doesn't make sense, look at the the AI industry appearing out of nearly nowhere and is moving so fast even the people in the market can't keep up. And is mostly open source. We might be approaching the limit of what is physically possible. No changes to the situation are needed if we want things to move faster. Maybe winding down IP protections to maintain the speed, once the lawyers get involved that'll kill some of the momentum. [0] https://sciencebusiness.net/news/cybersecurity/germany-launch-sovereign-tech-fund-secure-digital-infrastructure https://sciencebusiness.net/news/cybersecurity/germany-launc... [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainers.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainers.h...