libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

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weinzierl•about 2 hours ago

The longer background is that Christian Ude our mayor until 2014 furthered the LiMux[1] project - migrating more than 14000 PCs in public administration to Linux.

He got personal visits from both Ballmer and Gates that pressured him to stay with Microsoft[2] but did not balk.

Unfortunately his successor caved to Microsoft's siren song abolished LiMux and Microsoft got a nice campus in the city (they used to be at the outskirts).

Since May this year we have the young and energetic Dominik Krause and there is hope for change again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[2] https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2019/10/interview-2/

wxw•about 2 hours ago

https://opensource.muenchen.de/sabbatical.html

> The Open Source Sabbatical is intended to provide professionally qualified software developers with the opportunity to work on an open source project for a limited period of time in order to improve it.

> This sabbatical is not only open to employees of the City of Munich, but also to external software developers.

So cool. Congrats to Sebastian!

kristianp•43 minutes ago

Related discussion of the maintainer stepping down from libxml2 support. libexpat is a different library of course.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283196

10 months ago | 119 comments

Also related:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

righthand•about 2 hours ago

Hey maybe the haters at Google /WHATWG can use this library instead of killing off XSLT. Just kidding we all know they’re too compromised by monopoly/advertising interests of Google and their own beliefs to allow such a cool technology to live on; and don’t have the skills for such a thing.

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

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