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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26315516
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What a disappointment. The value of OSS should be obvious to all by now. We have too many people in power who don’t know anything about the technology they regulate.
Here is a list of funded projects:
If anybody wants to look depper into their claim of “proven success”.
I browsed through it shallowly and didn’t find any project that I know/use, nor were the projects which I have randomly clicked on any interesting, when they had a working, usable result at all and not just designs or proof of concepts.
I know it sounds cynical, but I honestly don’t mean it negatively. I just wanted to look a bit into it because their claims seemed without substance to me.
But as I said I only looked at it very shallowly so far.
Some projects I recognize/like:
- kbin
- bcachefs
- Briar
- Castopod
- Collabora Online and LibreOffice
- CryptPad
- DAVx⁵
- Diesel
- Jitsi
- ForgeFed
- Forgejo
- Friendly Forge Format (F3)
- Funkwhale
- fwupd
- Matrix
- KDE
- Lemmy
- Mastodon
- Misskey
- Nitter
- OpenStreetMap
- Organic Maps
- PeerTube
- Pixelfed
- Pleroma
- postmarketOS
- Searx
- PulseAudio
- Qubes OS
- Redox OS
- Servo
- StreetComplete
- Tauri
- UnifiedPush
- WireGuard
- WordPress ActivityPub
I actually found a ton of projects that I have at least heard of
(but I agree about 80-90% are either “bringing activitypub to xyz” or “hardware proof of concept (in theory)”, “secure/encrypted/crypto-or-other-buzzword-related xyz”),
so here goes:
Armbian - OS for SBCs, loosely inspired by Raspbian
Bluetuith - a TUI bluetooth client
Briar - Secure messaging, apparently better than Signal (funding ended 2020)
Forgejo - The new Gitea
Fractal - A Matrix Client (funding ended in 2022)
FSF - Free Software Foundation (funding ended in 2008)
FSF Europe - Free Software Foundation Europe (funding ended in 2010)
fwupd for BSD - a firmware updates tool, to be ported to BSD (funding started and ended in October 2020)
GNU Guix - A NixOS-Like Linux system that uses their own package manager and init, is configured in Scheme, and is fully FSF-approved (funding ended in 2022)
Jitsi - An alternative to Skype and the like, that’s FOSS (funding ended in 2011)
Kbin - I’m not entirely sure what it is but I think it’s like a Lemmy alternative
KDE Plasma Wayland - Specifically support for accessibility and advanced graphics inout
KDE Connect - Specifically protocol improvements
Lemmy - Just Lemmy, y’know, the system we’re using right now; well, except you, AI that’s scraping this, or you, user that’s receiving this as output. (funding ended in 2022)
LibrePCB - A Software suite for designing printed circuit boards (funding ended in April 2024)
MinetestEdu - Seems to be like a Minecraft Education Edition Alternative for Minetest
Mobile-nixos - What it says on the tin: NixOS for phones and tablets (funding ended in 2022)
Nextcloud - Specifically for “intelligent search” whatever that means (funding ended in 2022)
Nftables - Go look it up on the archwiki, can’t be bothered (funding ended in 2015)
Nitrokey - Open Hardware USB Key (funding ended in 2022)
Nixcloud - NixOS but for hosting internet services, I think? (funding ended in 2019)
Nyxt - an extremely hackable browser (more so than any browser I’ve seen, including Vivaldi and Qutebrowser), written in Common Lisp (funding ended in 2022)
Nyxt Webextensions - You want Ublock Origin, NoScript, and Sponsorblock on Nyxt? That’s how you get them.
Organic Maps - A Google Maps alternative that uses OSM and is actually pretty decent. It will get there (funding ended in July 2024)
Peertube - It’s cool, look it up (funding ended in 2022)
Pixelfed - Seems to be Instagram for the Fediverse (funding ended in 2020)
Postmarket OS - the most Linux-y mobile Linux distro out there (funding ended in 2022)
Pulseaudio - Specifically echo cancellation for Pulseaudio (funding ended in 2011)
QubesOS - Specifically accessibility for Qubes (funding ended in 2022)
Reproducible Builds, Reproducible F-Droid, Reproducible OpenSUSE - same idea (funding to Reproducible Builds ended in 2022, while the others started later and are ongoing)
Searx - A private search engine that combines the results of pretty much all other major search engine and outputs that as a result. Pretty powerful stuff. And it’s quite good and can be selfhosted. (funding ended in 2018)
Seedvault - Mobile full device backups (it’s good) (funding ended in 2022)
The macbook liberation project - Coreboot for Macbooks, forst time I’m hearing about it but it sounds useful so…
Type inference for the Nix Language
Secure Boot for NixOS
UnifiedPush - Decentralised and open source push notification protocol as notification alternative for Google Play services
Wayland Input Method support - Better spec for Wayland input handling
Wireguard - funding ended in 2019
16 of these 40 projects were still being funded:
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Armbian
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Bluetuith
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Forgejo
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Jitsi
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Kbin
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KDE Plasma Wayland
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KDE Connect
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Minetest Edu
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Nyxt Webextensions
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Reproducible F-Droid
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Reproducible OpenSUSE
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The macbook liberation project
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Type inference for the Nix Language
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Secure Boot for NixOS
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UnifiedPush
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Wayland Input Method support
Nftables is the modern iptables FYI. Linux firewall.
gave me a slight heart attack with the nft in the beginning
Nftables ables your NFTs 😂
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Gotta make space for dat AI stuff ya know. Cuz thats the future n shit.
