He's doing a suck job of it. The things he's gutting are pennies towards his dark-souled oligarch masters. Cutting small government projects like the NEA, PBS or like FOSS grants is only used as an appeal to fiscal responsibility conservatives that aren't willing to cut into old-people benefits like Social Security and military sacred cows. Not because gutting tiny projects does anything useful, rather it gives the vibe that representatives are doing something.

This is an appeal to the imbicile MAGA though the tech bros might have specific FOSS projects that compete with their own commercial offerings. Not enough to cut all FOSS grants, though.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

In essence he's trying to bankrupt the whole country so he and his circle can buy it all up. He's trying to do the same thing that was done in Russia when the ussr collapsed.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] BoulevardBlvd@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 week ago

Yeah... Because China is big into encryption

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

They are in order to get away from American products

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I thought the EU was reducing funding to FOSS projects and investing more into AI. I could've sworn I read that somewhere last year.

Edit: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/

I think it was this event that I read.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ikr, i can't believe this administration did something backwards this time.