At Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:24:59 +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > freenet → Funding for freenet - limiting funders? We need your opinion > I am in favour of accepting government funding, provided that we don't > become totally dependant on it. I don't believe government introducing > backdoors and government funding are correlated in an open source > project. What can happen (look at Tor) is that government is only > interested in funding certain aspects of our work, which can distort > priorities; this can be managed to some degree by top-slicing, and it's > a problem with almost any major funding. > > IMHO accepting government funding isn't much different to accepting > funding from major corporates such as Google, who have been very > generous to us in the past and have a reputation for trying to do the > right thing, while simultaneously being partly responsible for some of > the dangerous Internet trends of the last decade.
This was also the general consensus at FMS, I think. Best wishes, Arne _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
