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Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.
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On the one hand, I share your doubt, which is justified in the face of all the deceit and mismanagement that Merz in particular and the CDU and CSU in general engage in and their disdain for the public good. On the other hand, the fact that the Sovereign Tech Fund / Agency survived the German budget crisis gives me some hope that it will at least stay.
The problem is that no other country has done anything of the sort. I'm sure the Swiss, the Dutch, the French, the other german-speaking countries and especially the Nordics have enough money to give a few million here and there to FOSS. But they didn't, because their leaders are just as corrupt and vile. Everybody is acting as if America is the ultimate villain: the fact of the matter is, give any of those European leaders power over America and sooner or later they would turn out exactly the same. It is in their nature. And I say this having lived in Europe for a while.
The German fund staying is pure luck since the hawks at EU are stupid. They'll come after it once they're done with Chat control.