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Is anyone aware of similar funds or structures from different countries? Sovereign Tech Fund is German, but I did not find (albeit not looked too much) any in

Is anyone aware of similar funds or structures from different countries? Sovereign Tech Fund is German, but I did not find (albeit not looked too much) any in other European countries.

the-dude 2y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nlnet https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nlnet ?
WhyNotHugo 2y ago
NLnet is somewhat similar: https://nlnet.nl/ https://nlnet.nl/
- omnimus 2y ago
  Nlnet gets funding from NGI https://ngi.eu/ https://ngi.eu/ and unfortunately there have been insider reports that EU commission gave top priority to AI and from 2025 cut all funding of NGI to free up money for the AI initiative. Of course this is pretty lame and terrible as lot of good independent projects got funding there.
- Vinnl 2y ago
  For context, NLNet's NGI0 programs are EU-funded (for now [1]). [1] https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI
razakel 2y ago
Every country has some sort of quango that throws money at "weird" projects.
- catanama 2y ago
  FreeBSD is not weird, it's a good and very reliable OS, I'm very happy this happens.
  - razakel 2y ago
    FreeBSD is excellent if your use-case is flinging bits as fast as possible, but it is kind of niche. Who else is going to fund them? Netflix?
    - BSDobelix 2y ago
      >Who else is going to fund them? Netflix? So you don't have to do the "research" yourself: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYear=2023 https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYea... https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYear=2022 https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYea... BTW: Those are just the monetary donations towards the foundation, additionally you have developers that are directly paid to work on the FreeBSD project (search for "Sponsored by"): https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/
    - nwellnhof 2y ago
      There's also a lot of FreeBSD code in Apple OSes.
      - cpach 2y ago
        There is! I wonder how much new *BSD code Apple has imported the past ~5 years or so. Does anyone know?
        nwellnhof 2y ago
        The code can be found here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions One example I'm aware of is that they switched from GNU libiconv to FreeBSD libiconv in macOS 14.
    - gruturo 2y ago
      Can't argue it's niche but it's far from uncommon. The BSD licensing allows usage in places allergic to the GPL so you see it (or don't) often used behind the scenes in lots of products. ...and I'm writing this comment on a Lenovo T450s running FreeBSD. Dang can probably verify the user agent of my POST, if he has nothing better to do (pretty sure he does). The experience is not perfect (just _now_ I'm enjoying fighting with a deskhop (https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop) which isn't seen as a ums pointing device unless another usb mouse is also present, but that's the first problem in months (admittedly it's also the first change in as many months)).
- mtmail 2y ago
  For Germany that would be https://prototypefund.de/en/ https://prototypefund.de/en/
- rospaya 2y ago
  > A quango or QUANGO is an organisation to which a government has devolved power, but which is still partly controlled and/or financed by government bodies. A quasi NGO. First time I heard this term.
  - razakel 2y ago
    It's a British term; it basically means a somewhat independent authority nominally at arm's-length from the government, for example, regulatory agencies or national museums.

Is anyone aware of similar funds or structures from different countries? Sovereign Tech Fund is German, but I did not find (albeit not looked too much) any in other European countries.

the-dude 2y ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nlnet https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nlnet ?

WhyNotHugo 2y ago

NLnet is somewhat similar: https://nlnet.nl/ https://nlnet.nl/

omnimus 2y ago
Nlnet gets funding from NGI https://ngi.eu/ https://ngi.eu/ and unfortunately there have been insider reports that EU commission gave top priority to AI and from 2025 cut all funding of NGI to free up money for the AI initiative. Of course this is pretty lame and terrible as lot of good independent projects got funding there.
Vinnl 2y ago
For context, NLNet's NGI0 programs are EU-funded (for now [1]). [1] https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI

razakel 2y ago

Every country has some sort of quango that throws money at "weird" projects.

catanama 2y ago
FreeBSD is not weird, it's a good and very reliable OS, I'm very happy this happens.
- razakel 2y ago
  FreeBSD is excellent if your use-case is flinging bits as fast as possible, but it is kind of niche. Who else is going to fund them? Netflix?
  - BSDobelix 2y ago
    >Who else is going to fund them? Netflix? So you don't have to do the "research" yourself: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYear=2023 https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYea... https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYear=2022 https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYea... BTW: Those are just the monetary donations towards the foundation, additionally you have developers that are directly paid to work on the FreeBSD project (search for "Sponsored by"): https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/
  - nwellnhof 2y ago
    There's also a lot of FreeBSD code in Apple OSes.
    - cpach 2y ago
      There is! I wonder how much new *BSD code Apple has imported the past ~5 years or so. Does anyone know?
      - nwellnhof 2y ago
        The code can be found here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions One example I'm aware of is that they switched from GNU libiconv to FreeBSD libiconv in macOS 14.
  - gruturo 2y ago
    Can't argue it's niche but it's far from uncommon. The BSD licensing allows usage in places allergic to the GPL so you see it (or don't) often used behind the scenes in lots of products. ...and I'm writing this comment on a Lenovo T450s running FreeBSD. Dang can probably verify the user agent of my POST, if he has nothing better to do (pretty sure he does). The experience is not perfect (just _now_ I'm enjoying fighting with a deskhop (https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop) which isn't seen as a ums pointing device unless another usb mouse is also present, but that's the first problem in months (admittedly it's also the first change in as many months)).
mtmail 2y ago
For Germany that would be https://prototypefund.de/en/ https://prototypefund.de/en/
rospaya 2y ago
> A quango or QUANGO is an organisation to which a government has devolved power, but which is still partly controlled and/or financed by government bodies. A quasi NGO. First time I heard this term.
- razakel 2y ago
  It's a British term; it basically means a somewhat independent authority nominally at arm's-length from the government, for example, regulatory agencies or national museums.