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

submitted 1 month ago by AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 month ago

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

[-] tanukikabuki@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

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

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Freedom isn't free as in beer?

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.