The lack of public funding for these important technologies has a negative impact not only on free software, but on the entire future of the internet."

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criticism-programmed-EU-cuts-funding-for-free-software-and-the-open-web-9841882.html

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Criticism programmed: EU cuts funding for free software and the open web

The "Next Generation Internet" initiative has been funding open source projects since 2018. Despite high demand, the EU Commission wants to cut financial aid.

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@fsfe I honestly don't understand how the EU intends to invest in things like AI without having digital infrastructure first.

It's like cutting funding from wheat production to focus on making bread instead.