M. Fioretti
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1/3 of FOSS maintainers are unpaid, 1/3 are the only maintainer of their open source project, and almost three quarters of surveyed FOSS projects are maintained by three people or fewer. Here's how an #EU fund could help, with pitfalls: .
fossforce.com
Open source powers the world, but who should to keep it running—and who should decide where the money goes?
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"The World Runs 20 Billion Instances of Curl, but almost nobody helps it". That's EXACTLY the problem an #EU #opensource support fund would solve:.
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At the risk of simplifying, I see three camps. the third accepts that we are in serious trouble on all fronts", says @aeberman12:. I'm in that camp, and these are the 10 serious troubles I see:.
artberman.com
On a flight to California last week, I read a review of two new books on the Renaissance that made me think differently about the times we live in. In Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer dismisses...
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Watch out how #EU would fund #opensource maintenance!. More interest in FOSS maintenance is great, but FOSS purpose built to sell uselessly complicated cars is not FOSS I would fund with public #money.
fossforce.com
Open source powers the world, but who should to keep it running—and who should decide where the money goes?
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The 10 biggest errors of our time. This is the first. Continues here:
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Maintenance of infrastructures — digital or not — may not look as glamorous as #startups or as becoming the next #SiliconValley but it’s the former what actually keeps the world going. How should the #EU fund it?
fossforce.com
Open source powers the world, but who should to keep it running—and who should decide where the money goes?
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The biggest errors of our time? Wrong, REALLY WRONG beliefs about #environmentalism #overpopulation #money #work #education and more:.
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What if. #EU money to fund #opensource maintenance goes to programmers just as competent as European ones, but living anywhere on the planet? Could it give more Europeans one more justification to vote far right, or not vote at all?.
fossforce.com
Open source powers the world, but who should to keep it running—and who should decide where the money goes?
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1/3 of FOSS maintainers are unpaid, 1/3 are the only maintainer of their #opensource project, and almost 75% of surveyed #FOSS projects are maintained by 3 people or less. Is an #EU wide Sovereign Tech Fund the solution? Yes, with pitfalls:.
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RT @FOSSForce: Just published on FOSS Force: Advantages and Pitfalls of Public Investment in Open Source Infrastructure .
fossforce.com
Open source powers the world, but who should to keep it running—and who should decide where the money goes?
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"Despite the dangers, the demand for Frankenstein systems continues to grow. Many believe that integrating the repair sector into the formal economy could bring about a win-win situation. ". GO #India! With #FreeSoftware of course.
theverge.com
Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.
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call for interview to @GreensEFA : since your contact form does NOT work, I'm trying this channel (please answer by email at mfioretti@nexaima.net, thanks)
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My take: this measure IS meant to "f--k" the consumer economy, because that emergency will be a perfect excuse to push #driverless trucks that will put out of jobs ALL truckers, Americans and not. Original:
Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers. The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.
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If you ask me, Eurostack's "European alternative for digital sovereignty" issurprisingly filled with ideas and solutions that seem to come straight out of. the United States it's supposed to free Europe from. Do you agree?.
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Linus himself said that if he were starting over, he might just program FPGAs instead of a new #linux. The power of FPGAs is why I have said for many years now that it’s high time to make European FPGAs and bring FPGA design to the masses. Do you agree?.
fossforce.com
Could Washington’s ban on US tech exports to China spark greater technological independence in Europe -- and beyond?
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Don't you love "smart" locks that let ANYBODY holding your phone unlock your home door REMOTELY and OVENS, for heaven's sake, addicted to. WiFi?. #IoT for home is REALLY stupid: .
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to @Senficon :. 1) thanks for your proposal of an #EU sovereign tech fund:. 2) and pls see my email about it.
github.blog
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.
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