• e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    48·
    14 days ago

    None of what you said is in any way related to my comment. Still, FOSS doesn’t give you any say in how the original project is developed. You especially have no say in how these developers spent their time. The developers built something for themselves and released it under a FOSS license in case somebody else finds it useful. You aren’t owed anything. Your words might not even worthy of consideration to them. You can however create your own version of Lemmy. The license grants you these rights.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      13·
      14 days ago

      The developers built something for themselves

      I’d just interject here to say they actually took a lot of EU funding to develop it. There were no strings attached, as it should be, but still. I agree with the rest.

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            12 days ago

            Yep NLNet basically turned from an ISP into a quango, specialising in distributing public funds in the FLOSS sector. Money goes practically directly from a decision of the EU Parliament to NLNet (and others) as noone wants the EU Commission to deal with the details and specifics, including the EU Commission itself. Specifics as in “do we allocate money to this or that project, how does that benefit / synergise with the larger infrastructure of codebases, do we file that under ‘supporting base infrastructure’ or ‘develop communication platforms for the civil society’ (as per goals for the funds, set by parliament) and who specifically is going to do the coding and thus get the money”. Quite common model in Europe in general, quangos aren’t as independent as true NGOs as funds always come with asterisks (hence the “quasi-autonomous” before “ngo”) but OTOH, hey, it’s funds. When they give out money it’s overwhelmingly either EU or the Dutch state doing things, or private donations, I don’t think they do corporate “charity”.