Source: Hacker News
Article note: It's not a bad suggestion.
It would be a good way to direct a not-that-large chunk of resources at open source projects (which is often the problem; it's very hard as a public entity to give some money to an open source project or pay one of its active devs as a consultant or whatnot, so you get farcical shit like a national lab asking HPE asking some random gcc dev to do something with no way to compensate them).
It would be a good way to get some capable software engineers out of the "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" hole that is eroding our civilization.
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