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Oregon State University's Open Source Lab Is Running on Fumes
- whalesalad 2y agoI remember using their mirrors in like 2005 to install Linux packages.
- mdaniel 2y agoI used to donate to them <https://osuosl.org/donate https://osuosl.org/donate> but I don't recall why. Looking at <https://osuosl.org/communities/ https://osuosl.org/communities/> it's possible they have switched to all PowerPC and aarch64 centric focus
- voxadam 2y agoFuture of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy | 6 days ago | 102 comments| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849271
- bgwalter 2y agoThis looks like a victim of some anti-wokeness Trump program. The administration probably remembers that Oregon was pretty active in BLM protests. Perhaps the GPL friendliness of the OSU lab also plays a role. The broligarchs want the OSS slaves to write free MIT/BSD software and otherwise shut up.
- beanjuiceII 2y agowhy would they be using tax payer money to fund any of this?
- insane_dreamer 2y agobetter than my tax dollars going to the military (to the tune of $1T a year now)
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- beanjuiceII 2y agomaybe its just an end of an era, and now that places like linux foundation have warchests full of cash they can take over the reigns for this type of free hosting if people want it