If you are rich, start funding work on important projects, like NLnet and Sovereign Tech do. Personally I would start with funding GPL compliance actions by Sof

If you are rich, start funding work on important projects, like NLnet and Sovereign Tech do. Personally I would start with funding GPL compliance actions by Software Freedom Conservancy, the FSF LibrePhone work (and all other firmware reverse engineering efforts), Bootstrappable/Reproducible Builds, distributed code review, privacy fixes, embedded code copy removal, building from source, dynamic linking (esp for Rust), static analysis tools and libre machine learning training. These all need hackers with time on their hands too of course. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/ https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/ https://librephone.fsf.org/ https://librephone.fsf.org/ https://bootstrappable.org/ https://bootstrappable.org/ https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://github.com/crev-dev/ https://github.com/crev-dev/ https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCopies https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCopies https://wiki.debian.org/AutoGeneratedFiles https://wiki.debian.org/AutoGeneratedFiles https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking#Rust https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking#Rust https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/ https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/