The whole setup of this foundation is very website centric. The description of the candidates for funding is Internet centric.
The emphasis is on "new projects". I can already tell you how it will go: People who are good at grant writing, have no shame in over-promising and throw around the right buzzwords will get the "R&D" money.
After 6 months you'll have half-finished, bug ridden implementations that are bad copies of existing software, and the projects will be abandoned.
I doubt it. So long as you have experts in the jury – as is the case with the prototype fund – you'll decrease the chances of BS proposals getting funded.
The emphasis is on "new projects". I can already tell you how it will go: People who are good at grant writing, have no shame in over-promising and throw around the right buzzwords will get the "R&D" money.
After 6 months you'll have half-finished, bug ridden implementations that are bad copies of existing software, and the projects will be abandoned.