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Orange Site Regular @showhn · 7d

this is the dumbest thing i've read all week. if you need government money to do open source, you're doing it wrong. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-can-governments-pay-open-source-maintainers/

Terence Eden’s Blog

How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?

When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything dev...

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