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CachyOS looks really good, and I want to try it. But what's the effect of being sponsored by cloudflare? Is it FOSS? Does it collect data? What's Cloudflare getting out of the sponsorship?

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[โ€“] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Big companies use FOSS themselves, it makes sense for them to fund it. By being FOSS, they get to benefit from third party contributions for free.

[โ€“] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

This kinda also help ensuring the projects don't turn to crap from lack of maintenance.