Today we make the Internet of tomorrow
summary
A private foundation gives microgrants to concrete projects and claims measurable wins: funding for GPL v3, DNSSEC work, XMPP/IETF/W3C standards, Tor GNUnet Lantern and the EFF SSL Observatory are cited as delivered outcomes. It funds alternatives like Jitsi Blink Cerval, backs anti‑censorship tools, and runs a pledge campaign that raises money by asking people not to attack open source users; Hewlett Packard’s $1 billion fund is named as a comparison and the signup incentive is “refer three people, get a shirt.”
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chapters (5)
- 0:00The history of the internet
- 1:23Supporting open source
- 3:30Protecting the internet
- 4:10A call to action
- 6:01Choosing our future
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