Comment by rad_gruchalski
2 months ago
I have so many issues with German “sovereign” initiatives founded as GmbH companies. This feels so uncompetitive.
2 months ago
I have so many issues with German “sovereign” initiatives founded as GmbH companies. This feels so uncompetitive.
What sort of issues? They are just providing funding for open source, personally I would prefer that sort of funding to corporate funding.
A GmbH is s for-profit company. They have a managing director, shareholders, … ultimately it’s a for—profit org established on an insider-level knowledge and good luck creating a competitive business to the one of those players. Case in point: Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH.
Some links for other folks looking at this:
https://www.sovereign.tech/legal https://www.sovereign.tech/faq https://www.sprind.org/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesagentur_f%C3%BCr_Sprungi...
I guess the government wouldn't fund more than one such org, even if the additional ones were non-profit instead.
At least NLnet (similar org from .nl) is a registered charity. IIRC its funds are from the EU level though.
https://nlnet.nl/
What happened with Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH?