downey, 
"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."
— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially
Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:
https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability
