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I agree that this announcement is mostly a PR stunt. I find it more likely that the truth is more along the lines that the Quad9 foundation found themselves with a lack of funding from the original founders and SWITCH agreed to provide additional funding but required them to relocate to Switzerland to do so.

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Nope, SWITCH was engaged after the country decision was made. The country selection process took the better part of five years. SWITCH was engaged in July of 2019. SWITCH has contributed labor, but has put up no money. Quad9 is, as always, a starving non-profit, because when money comes in, it gets spent to provide service, but it's more comfortable now than at any point in the past.

So essentially every single assertion in your post is false, no? Did I miss something?

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