Written a couple of years ago, but still highly relevant!

In the twenty-first century, it’s time for governments to step up and fund open source regularly and proactively rather than hoping that some physics contractor manages to craft a grant that sparks the next information revolution. Key digital infrastructure is reduced to lame pleas for sponsors or scraping together funding from disparate sources. It doesn’t have to be this way. **Digital infrastructure is infrastructure.** Let’s act like it.

— @carlana

https://blog.carlana.net/post/2021/digital-infrastructure-is-infrastructure/