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> There are many solid arguments for state funding of open-source programming efforts Perhaps there are solid arguments for that if your goal is to put open-so
by Gormo 3y ago
> There are many solid arguments for state funding of open-source programming efforts
Perhaps there are solid arguments for that if your goal is to put open-source projects under the de facto control of political institutions. But for those of us who prefer for FOSS to continue on in a decentralized, mostly autonomous fashion, rather than have it be overwhelmed by rent-seekers looking for state subsidies, or be used as a pawn to advance various factions' political agendas, those arguments don't seem quite so solid.
- asadotzler 3y agoNASA is a FOSS contributor. Got a problem with that?
- Gormo 3y agoNot hugely, since NASA is an organization with a very narrowly tailored scope, and it's participating in FOSS projects as a means to the end of facilitating its space-exploration mission. FOSS is incidental to NASA's purpose;: they use and modify code, and contribute their work back upstream, but aren't engaged in software development for public consumption as a primary activity. OTOH, I'd be extremely wary of a political organization founded for the specific purpose of funding/influencing the overall FOSS ecosystem.