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> Wake me up when governments actually start writing checks.

This is already happening. The European Commission funds thousands of open-source projects:

For instance, Stalwart is an open-source, Rust-based mail server and collaboration suite that has received grants from the EC:

https://stalw.art/blog/nlnet-grant-stalwart/

https://stalw.art/blog/nlnet-grant-collaboration/

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Yeah, that's unironically cool, but I don't see any customer success stories or any mention of big corpo/gov customers. The quantity and security of funding that long-term contracts bring leads to different outcomes than a subsidy. When I look at this my first thought is that I fear it will become abandonware when funding dries up.

What's the relationship between NGI and Nix? Vaguely remember another HNer suggested some sort of conflict of interest there re: funds.

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