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    7 months ago

    How the hell are NATO and other large orgs not funding Matrix? Blows my mind.

    A particularly amazing real-life example of this came from a certain Ministry of Defence last week, whose procurement department (on being asked to help fund core Matrix development, given their operational dependency on Matrix) said: “You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project.” Apparently if we had built the same tech as a proprietary product, paying for it would apparently have been an infinitely better use of taxpayer money.

    I… don’t know what to say.

    Anti Commercial AI thingy

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