After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt

They're in the right of course, but I think it would be more productive for any FOSS product or organization to divest themselves from American influence and investment as much as possible. The US is no longer a free society nor can it be trusted to work in the interests of free software culture.

And to the person currently typing "was the US ever a free society?" freedoms within a society exist along a spectrum from authoritarianism to anarchy (to oversimplify) and yes, the US was at one point free enough within the context of this conversation, and is no longer free enough, even if one concedes that it was never perfectly free.

Open source, in search of a viable business model.

Classic, since days of MIT license lore.

Looks like universities and research labs (corporate, private, and government, wait, scratch that last one a bit) will be picking up the tiny slacks, ... again.