There are some detailed articles around in german tech magazine c’t. If you want more information, look there - this initiative looks quite well managed
The cynic in me says they are very good at burning through such amounts without any notable progress. However since it is open source, my hopes are up that this will lift the veil where otherwise bureaucracy and corruption will waste the money.
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.
It’d be a public service in more ways than one.