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The German ministry for research and education sponsors a lot of open-source projects they think will be useful for the open-source-landscape or their own projects some day.

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specifically, Codemirror got funding [0] via the Prototype Fund [1], which is a partnership beteeen the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany [2] and the German federal ministry of education and research [3].

they fund public-interest open source projects, several per funding round.

[0] https://prototypefund.de/en/project/codemirror/

[1] https://prototypefund.de/en/about-2/

[2] https://okfn.de/en/

[3] https://www.bmbf.de/en/index.html

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