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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:
@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.
Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards _public code_ that belongs to all of us.
That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable.
https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/