• novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one
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    11 days ago

    That would be good for government to cut funding. Users should give away their own cash to support the projects.

    Funders of any project can influence decisions, but users giving from their own personal money can keep open source software free from any influences.

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      One of the expressed reasons for cutting funding to PBS and NPR (via the Corp. for Public Broadcasting) is because they can’t influence what is being said by those entities.