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More than funding: Sovereign Tech Fund to become an agency

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Didn't they just cut the funding?
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No, I don't think so.
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I believe the EU redirected open source funding to LLM/"AI". Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund on the other hand had its budget increased.
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i didn't know that the sovereign tech fund was a thing and now i wonder how common something like that is; thanks for sharing.
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Pretty unusual, especially state-owned. There was a similar program on EU level that was just cancelled, apart from that I don’t know any other countries investing in open source.
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State owned means the state wants to control open source, can't see how this can possibly be a good thing, you know it will mean funding with conditions.
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can’t see how this can possibly be a good thing, you know it will mean funding with conditions.


Well, the things they are funding will get funded? How is that a bad thing?!

The conditions range from very broad, like "fix bugs" (curl), over somewhat specific like "improve cross-platform compatibility and the Linux RNG" (Wireguard), to very specific like "create a test-suite and drive development on the Fediverse account migration functionality" (ActivityPub).

You can see more for yourself at sovereign.tech/tech

All of these seem to be rather tame conditions that are just there to ensure the funds get used in the way they were intended to be used. And I don't really see how that gives the STF any sort of direct control over these projects, while it gives those projects resources to achieve more than they might have otherwise. There are no long-term funding models that would enable implicit control over these projects.

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