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Oh man that sucks! I wonder if we could pull Alpine into our colo, we recently upgraded to a full rack from 2U (it was cheaper than a quarter rack!) and have a
by systems_glitch 2y ago
Oh man that sucks! I wonder if we could pull Alpine into our colo, we recently upgraded to a full rack from 2U (it was cheaper than a quarter rack!) and have a ton of space. Plus all of our libvirt/KVM HVMs run Alpine.
- plagiarist 2y agoIt's surprising to me that Alpine isn't set for life from corporate donations. They're my first choice for laying down the foundation in a container.
- rollcat 2y agoThis is why: https://m.xkcd.com/2347/ https://m.xkcd.com/2347/ Now go ask your employer to donate.
- klardotsh 2y agoAside from some major examples, like most of the big tech companies funding the Linux kernel and maybe the Rust and/or Python Foundations in decent numbers, for the most part, corporations don't pay for open-source. That's why they love it so much: it costs ~$0, but generates immense business value for them (in that they don't have to write, debug, or maintain any of that, often essential, code or infra). I can think of maybe three exceptions my entire career, and none of them were especially huge contributions.
- systems_glitch 2y agoIndeed, we donate to several open source projects on which we depend, but we're also a small two-person operation. No medium/large company I've worked for ever donated monetarily to open source projects, though one did encourage us to fix bugs and submit patches/pull request, which is at least something! Slackware's the same way, most donations come from individuals and very small companies.