On the other hand this made me think about funding for infra. When you fund infrastructure, you are funding the end result (the service’s existence) and not the software directly. Therefore I don’t think it should matter if it is or not, unless the funding includes that condition. It doesn’t change the thing you are funding and software in the cloud is not verifiable. I have thought of starting a fund that goes to funding open infra on Nostr.land like hist.nostr.land, free translations for clients, or maybe relays for NWC/NSC. The condition there is you zap, I run the service, and everyone benefits.

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Services like relays and translations are mostly drop-in to replace. So I think the model “the funded product is the service” makes sense for those services. This would work for an infrastructure fund in specific, but not for an OSS fund which is more funding the software that happens to run large infrastructure as well.