Open Technology Fund in jeopardy

[Pearlple]

The OTF is being run by the US Agency for Global Media, said agency has just been incapacitated as they lost virtually all funding.

Among others the OTF provides funding for:

• OpenVPN
• Let's Encrypt
• Tor
• Quad9-DNS
• F-Droid
• Mailvelope (OpenPGP encryption for Webmail)
• Tails (portable OS with censorship/surveillance protection)

It remains to be seen for how long they can keep up support and crucially keep up security updates. Let's hope this is only temporary and someone notices that the little funding they get might be worth it. Or have some other funding source step in. Sadly the EUs FOSS isn't looking much better, having lost to the AI and crypto hype.

[DedRoll]

Fuck AI and crypto!

Why are they stop funding something useful instead they're funding something practically useless