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Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. (thelibre.news)
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[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

What about him? The Wikipedia page seems pretty normal at first glance.

[-] Fucufycyffyfyf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Years ago it came to light that NTP (and OpenSSL if I remember right) were being run by like.. one dude (4 staff for OpenSSL?) on the tiniest trickle of donations, despite how vital the service was. It's a long time since I became aware so I may have misremembered.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency

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