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> Why would/should they? Because they care. That's it. > I've never paid for curl. I'm sure people who develop it doesn't want money and fame, but they're ju
by bayindirh 2y ago
> Why would/should they?
Because they care. That's it.
> I've never paid for curl.
I'm sure people who develop it doesn't want money and fame, but they're just doing what they like. However, curl has commercial support contracts if you need.
> Who even develops it?
Daniel Stenberg et al. Daniel can be found at https://daniel.haxx.se https://daniel.haxx.se.
> Sounds like a thankless job to fix obscure worstfit bugs.
It may look thankless, but it's not. curl is critical infrastructure at this point. While https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ applies squarely to cURL, it's actually nice that the lead developer is making some money out of his endeavor.