The European Union must keep funding free software
An open letter urges the European Commission to fund free software, emphasizing the importance of Next Generation Internet (NGI) programs for European technological innovation. It highlights NGI's success in supporting projects and collaborations.
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An open letter addressed to the European Commission emphasizes the importance of continuing to fund free software within the European Union. The letter expresses concern over the exclusion of Next Generation Internet (NGI) programs from the Horizon Europe working draft for 2025. NGI programs have been instrumental in supporting European software infrastructure and fostering innovation in free software projects. The letter argues that maintaining funding for NGI is crucial for ensuring the sovereignty of European technological innovation and digital infrastructure. It highlights the success of NGI in funding over 500 projects and fostering collaborations across European countries. The letter stresses the significance of free and open-source software in preserving data privacy, promoting community-based economies, and facilitating international collaboration. It calls for the preservation of the NGI program in the 2025 funding program to address the challenges of technological sovereignty and promote peace in the digital realm.
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4 commentsEnd of the month the browser shows you how it shared that 5 bucks among the sites you visited based on visits, time spent reading, whatever metrics. You can maybe also assing a part of this sum to sites you have a preference of. Let's say you love Momma's baking corner, and allocate 10% more to that site.
This is your payment for the services of the people who create web pages on the Internet. You have no control over that 5 euros, you can only spend it on sites you visited. There you go, everyone pays at least a small sum for what is consumed.
Same approach can be applied to Open Source projects. Since for example Github just doesn't want to implement a proper payment system for the projects they host and exploit.
Problem solved. Companies can have even bigger war chests for this purpose...
As an added plus site owners-creators can show what open source projects they use to run their sites, so those can be also funded with this approach.
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