I am speaking with Maurice Hendriks at #FOSDEM:

“Procurement Is the Biggest Form of Fundraising for FLOSS”
Track: Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 

Thesis: donations are optional and fragile. Procurement is structural. If public buyers require open deliverables and upstream work, they create durable funding for maintenance and security.

Event: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
“Public Money, Public Code” context: publiccode.eu/en/

#FOSDEM #FOSS #OpenSource #Procurement #PublicMoneyPublicCode