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US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux
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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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Urgh this is so backwards.
Governments need to fund more FOSS not less!
Hopefully the EU can increase its support to compensate.
Foss is free, and this guy is all about making the American people pay more money to his rich buddies
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.
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.
A great opportunity for China to get into open source
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
Yeah... Because China is big into encryption
They are in order to get away from American products
I thought the EU was reducing funding to FOSS projects and investing more into AI. I could've sworn I read that somewhere last year.
Edit: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/
I think it was this event that I read.
ikr, i can't believe this administrative did something backwards this time.