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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OTF funding is also not a direct indication of funding from US intelligence or backdoors in the code. OTF could just be promoting development of software that breaks free of repressive regimes, which indirectly benefits US foreign policy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

which indirectly benefits US foreign policy

See the last part of my response to this article for one of the other ways it benefits the US.