Like the other comments, you lost me at “designed” and somehow went even more downhill from there.

This is obvious trolling/ragebait.

Edit: reported to the mod team as this breaks Rule 5.

Depressing that it’s only 20%. (I’m in those 20%)

Okay, I found the answer:

https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/eic-accelerator_en

Who can apply?

Applicants from EU Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme:

…

For Horizon Europe, the easiest list to find is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_Europe

In short, Israel is part of the program.

[Edit: all is clear now, see my other reply]

Speaking from Israel, I’m just as confused as you are. My best guess: Israel’s reputation (before the war) as a “Start-Up Nation” was well earned, a lot of technology and innovation was happening here. Arguably still is (hard to tell with all the war stuff). So generally it made sense to invest in Israeli startups simply to advance technology in general.

But this is obviously an EU-centric program. All other countries listed are EU. So it’s still weird.

I give it a month.

I think I might

Or far more realistically, just make the server binaries available. You can’t force companies (or individuals for that matter) to open source their code.

The Stop Destroying Videogames initiative deliberately doesn’t care how they make the games work without continued support, as long as they do it. Releasing server binaries (or code) is one way, there are others.

Response from Ross Scott (starter of the Stop Killing Games movement): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Ay_aOUcFw

TL;DW: all the point they say opposing the initiative are straight up lies. Some other parts of the statement deliberately pretend to misunderstand the initiative.

Sure, it would have, but I was following the time-honored tradition of reading only the title and the Lemmy comments without clicking through to the full article. If that comment hadn’t been there, it is possible that my intrigue and confusion would have been sufficient to make me betray my legacy and bring shame to my family by actually reading the linked article. Disaster avoided!

Oh, thanks, I needed that to understand what this was talking about.