Funding Open Source like public infrastructure > To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift fro...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896433 #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Funding

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division. What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose. The #ActivityPub @ForgeFed project funded by #NGI0 via @npub1n8y6...l96n is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse! Yet they need HELP.

".. and that pissing contest ended their world." #Aliens

#Ethics-at-scale in #FOSS. Who cares? FOSS: "I made actor identity independent of DNS" FOSS: "Nice! I bridged all the social web protocols" FOSS: "And I made service development dead easy, intuitive and productive" Fedizen: "This is so wonderful. What a cozy place we have" Meta: "We agree! We embraced the technology and today announce free fediverse access for anyone. Our datacenters are primed and ready for a billion more fedizens. That's not all! With Service Mart you're in full control!"