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LibJPEG-Turbo is a really great library. We tested a number of them, and wound up using it. It has a good, commercial-friendly license, and screams like a bat out of hell. I no longer work for the company that would have used it, but I'd gently suggest that it would not be a good idea to let it die.
I wonder if RedHat or Mozilla would consider employing him?
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/04/10/mozilla-awards-3650...
That said, given Mozilla's current financial troubles, it seems pretty unlikely they'd be in a position to hire.
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Strange thing: Open Collective's offers fiscal hosts for simplifying paperwork, but if you select the Open Source Collective as your fiscal host, donations are not tax deductible because they say "the IRS doesn't consider software development a charitable act" or something. But there's so many software non profits in the US and I really don't understand that claim. So Open Collective has another fiscal host for chari…
IRS doesn't consider software development a charitable act This is correct AFAIK and Mozilla ran into the same thing years ago. Educational charities can be tax-exempt so you have to have an educational mission and develop software on the side. https://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2014/06/30/the-new-501c3-and...
LibJPEG-Turbo is a really great library. We tested a number of them, and wound up using it. It has a good, commercial-friendly license, and screams like a bat out of hell. I no longer work for the company that would have used it, but I'd gently suggest that it would not be a good idea to let it die.
Sounds like a perfect time for that company to sponsor the project financially!
Can someone please change the title so it reflects the content? This is libjpeg-turbo needing funding, the current title is clickbaity
That's literally the actual title of the posting. I've seen a number of similar postings here, with similar titles. I agree that it doesn't necessarily convey the stated goal of the posting, but I wouldn't call it "clickbaity."
I think that if the title actually mentioned the need for funding, it would get more relevant eyeballs.
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For non-businesses, I think one thing that would make donations a lot more attractive is if they could be made to a tax-exempt org (that means I can donate more at the same cost to myself, or donate the same at lower cost). But I get that something like that is hard to set up for someone who is already under water funding-wise. It would be great if there was an umbrella org that could handle this, perhaps for a fee/p…
> and the software is also available for free under the same or similar terms This would be illegal in many countries. The business must behave in its best interests. If software is available for free, yet they choose to pay for it, they aren't acting in their own best interests in the eyes of the law....
A link to https://jpeg.rocks/ was posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712301 This is based on https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg , which is a patched version of https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo
I would consider donating, but I'd frankly prefer to donate to tax-exempt orgs. That way I can donate more with the same effective "cost" to myself. I get that it's not trivial to set one of these up (especially for someone who is already in a funding deficit), but I think it would make donations a more attractive option for people. Additionally, the email talks about funding in hours of development work, but doesn't…
> but I'd frankly prefer to donate to tax-exempt orgs. I would prefer to buy a new car from a "tax exempt org" to maximise the "effectiveness to myself" of my purchase.. That's just not the way the world works though. libjpeg-turbo isn't developed by a tax exempt org, and nothing that _is_ developed by a tax exempt or is a practical replacement for it. If you want lib-jpeg to survive/thrive, donating to The EFF or Th…
> I would prefer to buy a new car from a "tax exempt org"
What does donating to an organization have to do with buying a car? (Hint: nothing, and you're arguing in bad faith.)
> But you do not get to make demands about how that dev structures his personal finances either.
Nowhere did I do that. All I'm saying is that I'd prefer to donate to projects backed by a tax-exempt org. If the developer can't/won't do that, that's their choice, as it is my choice to decide where my donation ollars go, based on whatever criteria I decide.