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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How the hell are NATO and other large orgs not funding Matrix? Blows my mind.

A particularly amazing real-life example of this came from a certain Ministry of Defence last week, whose procurement department (on being asked to help fund core Matrix development, given their operational dependency on Matrix) said: “You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project.” Apparently if we had built the same tech as a proprietary product, paying for it would apparently have been an infinitely better use of taxpayer money.

I... don't know what to say.

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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 points 7 months ago

You‘re as spot on as always. Why do I always read the most sane comments and then find you there? Btw your new signature is fire. Have a great day.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Thank you 🙂 Very kind.

You have a good day too!

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