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If I got a point, it is that this is nothing new.

If I had to come up with a way to fund opensource, I'd say the federal government should fund it, but heck if I know how grant would be made & managed. The government already has a mixed record in software purchasing. If, say, the gov't decided to fund jquery maintenance, would it happen in a way that would be better than how MS is maintaining it? Who knows.

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If I got a point, it is that this is nothing new.

If I had to come up with a way to fund opensource, I'd say the federal government should fund it, but heck if I know how grant would be made & managed. The government already has a mixed record in software purchasing. If, say, the gov't decided to fund jquery maintenance, would it happen in a way that would be better than how MS is maintaining it? Who knows.