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0 pointsramboldio4y ago0 comments

This is for public policy people to figure out. They do stuff like that all the time.

Of course it's not easy. But if it works, can be tremendously effective.

Maybe a starter would be to give some maintainers of already successful projects a salary, if they want. Impossible to game.

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arp2424y ago

Actually you can receive (modest) grants for this, for example from NLnet. I've been writing open source software full-time for the last two years funded partly by this.

There are also other grants I believe, but I'm not really an expert on this. I just know there are actually possibilities.

ramboldioOP4y ago

In fact, it is way easier to spot fraud in Open Source projects than in government subsidies literally in any other sector.

golergka4y ago

They indeed do "stuff like that" all the time. That's exactly my point.

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