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  • Paddy66@lemmy.ml
    921·
    5 days ago

    Urgh this is so backwards.

    Governments need to fund more FOSS not less!

    Hopefully the EU can increase its support to compensate.

    • HurlingDurling@lemm.eeEnglish
      611·
      5 days ago

      Foss is free, and this guy is all about making the American people pay more money to his rich buddies

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        51·
        5 days ago

        He’s doing a suck job of it. The things he’s gutting are pennies towards his dark-souled oligarch masters. Cutting small government projects like the NEA, PBS or like FOSS grants is only used as an appeal to fiscal responsibility conservatives that aren’t willing to cut into old-people benefits like Social Security and military sacred cows. Not because gutting tiny projects does anything useful, rather it gives the vibe that representatives are doing something.

        This is an appeal to the imbicile MAGA though the tech bros might have specific FOSS projects that compete with their own commercial offerings. Not enough to cut all FOSS grants, though.

        • HurlingDurling@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          5 days ago

          In essence he’s trying to bankrupt the whole country so he and his circle can buy it all up. He’s trying to do the same thing that was done in Russia when the ussr collapsed.

    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      4 days ago

      Or China! Open source is basically digital communism so maybe they’ll step in and support it like they did with the World Health Organization

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      ikr, i can’t believe this administration did something backwards this time.