Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.

[grue@lemmy.world]

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065

[grue@lemmy.world]

The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let's Encrypt, and F-Droid

[eat_your_paisley@lemm.ee]

Well it looks lime most of us are going to have to step up our donations foe the next few years

[snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Let’s Encrypt

God damn they literally just want to watch everything burn.

[buddascrayon@lemmy.world]

You will never approach the amount they receive from government funding. That is the point.

[eat_your_paisley@lemm.ee]

We're going to have to try or potentially lose the project

[Guest]

Elections have consequences. I am no longer on speaking terms w/ trump voters.

[gomp@lemmy.ml]

Well, at least the one he used for thruth is safe (mastodon IIRC?)

[krolden@lemmy.ml]

I'm no longer on speaking terms with any voters

[krolden@lemmy.ml]

Cut off .gov domains

[Guest]

I did not knew that Tor was getting funded by the american state. Thats giving me some spooky vibes.

[Guest]

The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.

[estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm no longer on speaking terms

[jtskulk@lemmy.world]

These are FOSS projects, not open source. They'd no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.

[Guest]

This is terrible news, anyone know of alternatives to let's encrypt?

[msage@programming.dev]

Hey! I'm speaking!

[Guest]

Its possible to add free for all except US govt and that does not stop it from being free for the rest of the world.

[jsomae@lemmy.ml]

[Guest]

It was invented by the US Navy.

[Guest]

Delta Chat was one of the FOSS projects affected:
https://chaos.social/@delta/114211300446944585