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fao_today at 1:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

Ok but the license fees are, what, 50 quid? times say, 3k or 30k people? A 150k or 1.5m injection into the linux ecosystem to develop those would pay for a _lot_ of developers and a _lot_ of developer time.


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repelsteeltjetoday at 1:29 PM

From what I heard about NGI-zero, another government sponsorship project (1), the problem so far is primarily finding the projects that need sponsorship.

(1) https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/

skavitoday at 1:27 PM

doesn’t really feel like that much tbh