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New Funding For Free Software In The UK

Posted by timothy on from the money-is-good-stuff dept.

AFFS writes "A new free software grants fund is available to projects in the UK from money raised by the UK Free Software Network UKFSN.org, the free software ISP set up by Jason Clifford in 2003, and donations to UK's Association for Free Software AFFS. The grants are open to any free software project or related campaign, by both individuals and groups."

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  1. Free(libre) Software as a Utility by KrackHouse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Once all of this patent madness is sorted I wonder if municipalities will consider hiring teams of open source software developers to help build the local "e-frastructure" (horrible word I know) similar to how they now provide things like water, police, and possibly wireless Internet.

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  2. Re:Connection to UKLinux.net? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I was the person who set up uklinux.net but I didn't have any money so it was finances by Lance Davis and Brian Teeman. They were also the people who commercially distributed by Linux distro (Definite Linux which is very much defunct!) - that was a straight RH derivative with crypto and RAID drivers and other things that RH lacked at the time.

    If you want to know why I left uklinux and formed ukfsn see my personal webpage at www.jasonclifford.com

    Suffice to say that I left uklinux in April 2000 and have nothing to do with them.

    At the time I left uklinux I was not aware of a single penny of actual donation. Everything was about spending money to promote uklinux (and the associated for profit businesses). The benefits to free and open source projects were a side effect. I didn't much like that.

    The lack of accountability and the obvious lack of distribution of profits is what led me to form UKFSN and to publish the accounts.

    Don't take my word for it though. Look into things for yourself.

    Jason Clifford