Why is everyone pitchforking that it's not enough? It's a library that is free for everyone, nearly every company on the web uses it somewhere. Almost none of them donate anything. Someone at AWS went through the effort to make this donation, I think that should only be encouraged.
AWS makes one-time donation of $5000 to curl
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#12This could be donation matching. I don't think AWS would give such a small sum for any other reason.
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#13What a ridicolous amount....aws is almost mocking the curl developers with such a shitty sum and a one-time payment as well. What is wrong with these tech companies? Completely out of touch with the reality of the rest of the planet.
If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. They didn't have to donate at all. $5k is not an insignificant amount of money for most people.
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#14The "congratulations" is a bit condescending. AWS clearly benefits from curl. But I guess that is FOSS in a nutshell.
AWS C++ SDK uses it to access AWS. Probably some other AWS SDKs as well. That amount should have been at least 10x and recurring.
That's a bit overstated. Although curl wrappers exist for most languages, they're far from popular or consensual in each individual community.
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#15The "congratulations" is a bit condescending. AWS clearly benefits from curl. But I guess that is FOSS in a nutshell.
> AWS clearly benefits from curl
Don't we all?
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#16What a ridicolous amount....aws is almost mocking the curl developers with such a shitty sum and a one-time payment as well. What is wrong with these tech companies? Completely out of touch with the reality of the rest of the planet.
According to your logic they shouldn’t have even donated.
It's like tipping the waiter a penny.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
AWS C++ SDK uses it to access AWS. Probably some other AWS SDKs as well. That amount should have been at least 10x and recurring.
That's a bit overstated. Although curl wrappers exist for most languages, they're far from popular or consensual in each individual community.
What's "overstated"? Literally every single API request in C++ AWS SDK goes through libcurl.
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#19What a ridicolous amount....aws is almost mocking the curl developers with such a shitty sum and a one-time payment as well. What is wrong with these tech companies? Completely out of touch with the reality of the rest of the planet.
If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. They didn't have to donate at all. $5k is not an insignificant amount of money for most people.
> $5k is not an insignificant amount of money for most people.
But it is an insignificant, rounding-to-zero, amount of money for Amazon given how much they rely on curl (and other OSS).