Last update: 08/12/2021
Feasibility study: Sovereign Tech Fund
Open source software is digital public infrastructure, yet it is not receiving the funding necessary to ensure the sustainability of important projects. Based on this assumption, a feasibility study funded by the German Ministry for Economy and Energy suggests a “Sovereign Tech Fund” to be created to plug funding holes in the open source software ecosystem. The feasibility study, based on interviews, analysed the status quo of the open source ecosystem and found that action was necessary. Even though open source has reached a high level of relevance and according to data 99% of Fortune 500…
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