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> while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis. While it's
by polycaster 2y ago
> while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis.
While it's not my business, I still wonder how this business looks like. Is curl sponsored? If so, is this a common thing for foundational tools alike?
- polycaster 2y agoFrom Daniel's contact page: > Just don’t send me private emails about the open source projects I participate in – unless you want to pay for commercial and private support! So it's support basically, I suppose.
- aitchnyu 2y agoSo who do I email when I'm angry at my car's screen and get lost at the "open source licenses" screen?
- UncleEntity 2y agoRMS I would presume.
- TheDong 2y agoIf you look around, you'll see the sponsors page: https://curl.se/sponsors.html https://curl.se/sponsors.html Some sponsorship is through opencollective, which includes transparent information about donations: https://opencollective.com/curl#category-BUDGET https://opencollective.com/curl#category-BUDGET So opencollective has it at $280k USD since sometime in 2018, not bad, that's like half of what the average Googler makes in 1 year (except spread over 5 years). You can also see there hadn't been many big single donations in 2020 from this post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/03/curl-receives-10k-usd-donation/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/03/curl-receives-10k-usd...
- nwellnhof 2y agoThey also received €195,000 from Sovereign Tech Fund in 2022: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/curl https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/curl
- jraph 2y agoHe probably still works for WolfSSL [1], who I think lets him work on Curl full time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Stenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Stenberg
- fragmede 2y agohence: https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/