You make a point Jeff . who is being biased?
I’m calling bullshit on this.
Grants, as far I can tell (I’m not on the committee), are given on the basis of proof of work and potential impact of a project/developer on the entire nostr ecosystem. They aren’t for commercial projects.
I’ve got a grant and OpenSats has never tried to restrict what I work on, other than to say that it must be open source (fair enough, I’d think). They ask for a quarterly update on what you’re working on. That’s all.
I find the idea that anyone in opensats would pressure grantees into silence completely laughable. They’re the most freedom maxi maxis I know.
I don’t know where this particular rant stems from Semi but it doesn’t hold water at all with my experience of OpenSats.
What I see is a group of people who could work on literally anything they want but chose to spend a part of their time (all of them completely unpaid, besides nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc ) reviewing applications and hustling to find more donors so that they can give all that money away in the hope of bootstrapping a vibrant ecosystem and community.
Definitely seems nefarious to me. 🤦♂️
This anti OpenSats cynicism is getting old.
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Everyone is biased. The idea of being an unbiased observer is horseshit. It doesn't exist.
My point is that if you look at OpenSats' actions, they overwhelmingly point to a group acting in extreme good faith to raise tons of money and give it ALL away to developers and projects with the goal of growing a strong and vibrant community. Anyone saying otherwise (and not bringing strong evidence to the table) is just being a cynic. I've got zero time for cynics.
There’s something called respecting people’s privacy.
If you take the time to think this out you’ll realize it’s more plausible than not. Their “transparency” is a joke. I can’t find a breakdown of their operations fund, their “meeting minutes” state the obvious, conflicts of interest are not disclosed. Follow the money and you’ll realize it’s fishy.
There’s a lot of things that on the surface look fine but when you dig deeper aren’t.