“ In Germany, for instance, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is financing the Sovereign Tech Fund, a program of the Sovereign Tech A

“ In Germany, for instance, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is financing the Sovereign Tech Fund, a program of the Sovereign Tech Agency investing in “projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem.” Currently funded projects include FreeBSD, a Unix-like operating system; JUnit, a testing framework for the Java ecosystem; the PHP Foundation, which is behind the PHP programming language; and the OpenJS Foundation, which hosts a range of JavaScript projects.” I would be pissed if my tax dollars were going to e-commerce platforms. We do not need more JavaScript frameworks. Protein-folding? Security research? Artificial vision? Sure. PHP? Um, no.