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.