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US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux (videos.abnormalbeings.space)

submitted 10 months ago by AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 87 points 10 months ago

Imagine trying to explain FOSS to this fucking administration.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 10 months ago

If it's free, then why are we paying for it?

[-] tanukikabuki@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

I see what you did there... but freedom costs $1.05.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Freedom isn't free as in beer?

[-] somegeek@programming.dev -4 points 10 months ago

I can hear ypu americanness from behind the screen darling.

Free means freedom not "no payments" it takes huge money to develop and maintain software and infrastructures like these. So they need funding to survive.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I was writing that in Trump's voice. I am an American who loves and contributes to open-source :)

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Plenty of people who (I assume) are smarter than Trump don't understand that FOSS refers to freedom, not price. It's not a very good term and I don't like how widely used it is now.