This is the opportunity to write a wish list
This is the opportunity to write a wish list
Posted Jan 7, 2026 23:21 UTC (Wed) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117)In reply to: This is the opportunity to write a wish list by cen
Parent article: European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
NLNET is not good IME.
It's goal-oriented, but most of the work we need is not goal oriented. Maintenance of projects isn't goal-oriented.
FWIW, they refused a submission from me for maintaining shadow-utils and improving its source code. The only feedback I got from them was something like "why don't you rewrite from scratch in Rust?". That's terrible. If EU wants to be serious, it needs to give money to projects without telling projects how to spend it.
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