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The European Union must keep funding free software

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Re: The European Union must keep funding free software

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Are you comparing nonprofit project budgets of a few thousand euros to corporate VC/investment budgets that are orders of magnitudes larger? > the lack of impressive success Successful delivery of hundreds of projects doesn't count? Improvements to widely used office and communication software? Improving critical infrastructure used by journalists and other members of civil society? Mentoring the next generation of d…

> What type of tech projects, budget and success do you expect the EU commission to fund? Are there previous successes that could be emulated, from the EU or other governments? Google was created by private investors, as was Skype. I'm not sure why you think the EU should be wasting bandwidth on this given that you are (accurately) identifying that it isn't managing to marshal much capital or following a model that l…

> The EU has a problem - no companies. They should solve that problem

This thread is about Horizon Europe, which has a specific charter.

If you want to solve a different problem, define a new investment program and lobby for it to be funded.

Re: The European Union must keep funding free software

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PyPy received an EU grant sometime in the late 2000s or early 2010s, although it had to be a different one. If I understood TFA correctly, NLnet is partially funded by this money? NLnet itself distributes money to very cool software things[1]—some moonshots such as Spectrum[2], some very down-to-earth and usable ones such as Nitrokey[3]. A discussion[4] linked in a neighbouring comment also mentions Sourcehut and Bca…

Thank you. I was looking for something like a table with a project, maybe a summary, amount funded, KPIs, and ideally an assessment of the results.

this is a recent (1-2 months old) report on the impact of the NGI0 programme:

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/257...

there was also a fosdem talk about this, if you prefer AV to text, finding it i leave as an exercise to the interested parties...

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