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Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by sph »

juliusceasar wrote: post #76

I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it. Let it fail and see what happens.

Harsh but true. Any of the FAANGs could cough up a million dollars and let the thing run for 1000 months.

I’m too poor to have too much revenue that I need to donate some away to pay fewer taxes. That’s a problem corporations have.

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

littlestymaar wrote: post #39
mhovd wrote: post #2

I am surprised that NTP project is not funded, fully or partially, by larger organizations or governments, given the criticality of the project.

Large tech companies and free-riding critical internet commons, name a better duo.

That would be easily solved by blocking from NTP any ip address belonging to a big tech corp that doesn't pony up.

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by marginalx »

The domain ntp.org is a very visible one, why not add a "Donors" page and say everyone who donates 250+ gets to show their company name as a sponsor on that page? This usually gets the attention of corporates and makes it easy to make the case internally as well, they all love to sponsor!

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by [deleted] »

sph wrote: post #81
juliusceasar wrote: post #76

I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it. Let it fail and see what happens.

Harsh but true. Any of the FAANGs could cough up a million dollars and let the thing run for 1000 months. I’m too poor to have too much revenue that I need to donate some away to pay fewer taxes. That’s a problem corporations have.

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Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

#86

Post by hosteur »

juliusceasar wrote: post #76

I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it. Let it fail and see what happens.

> Let it fail and see what happens.

It will get replaced by a proprietary protocol/paid service from each Azure, Cloudflare, Google, AWS, ...

The rest of us will be S.O.L.

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

#87

Post by sph »

throwaway838112 wrote: post #85
juliusceasar wrote: post #76

I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it. Let it fail and see what happens.

Doing that punishes people who donated.

How is not donating punishing those who do? Does not compute.

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

#88

Post by jvanderbot »

juliusceasar wrote: post #76

I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it. Let it fail and see what happens.

Ideologically pure, but for all practical purposes miserly. Trillion dollar companies are very hard to move that way and very unlikely to take the first step. We need a "Foundational Software and Services" fund that says very nice things about each donor and spends 100$ on publicity for every 1$ to software to even get them to start looking, I bet.

Donate some time: Ask your boss if their company could chip?

Re: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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Post by jahnu »

sph wrote: post #81
juliusceasar wrote: post #76

I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it. Let it fail and see what happens.

Harsh but true. Any of the FAANGs could cough up a million dollars and let the thing run for 1000 months. I’m too poor to have too much revenue that I need to donate some away to pay fewer taxes. That’s a problem corporations have.

Even a single highly paid employee of a FAANG, many of whom frequent this very forum, could pay for a year without breaking the bank.
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