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Puppy?
"free" when you find it on the side of the road, but expensive to actually maintain without having it die on you.
The download is free, but pay for it or it's going to die.
Oh course not. They stop people spying on you.
So I guess funds were cut, but then the courts ruled the president doesn't have authority to do this himself since the funds were allocated by congress, and so as of now they have been restored, although congress needs to approve them every year and there's concern they might not do so for next year.
Urgh this is so backwards.
Governments need to fund more FOSS not less!
Hopefully the EU can increase its support to compensate.
Or China! Open source is basically digital communism so maybe they'll step in and support it like they did with the World Health Organization
Yeah... Because China is big into encryption
ikr, i can't believe this administration did something backwards this time.
Foss is free, and this guy is all about making the American people pay more money to his rich buddies
Imagine trying to explain FOSS to this fucking administration.
If it's free, then why are we paying for it?
I see what you did there... but freedom costs $1.05.
Freedom isn't free as in beer?
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.
Sarcasm...
Sorry, I was writing that in Trump's voice. I am an American who loves and contributes to open-source :)
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.
You sound like a smug a-hole.
I didn't know that the government was funding these things to begin with, but I don't know many things.