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

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299 points gastonmorixe | 4 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.28s | source
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juliusceasar ◴[12 Nov 25 13:00 UTC] No.45899605[source]▶
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.

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hosteur ◴[12 Nov 25 13:25 UTC] No.45899843[source]▶
> 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.

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1. qwertytyyuu ◴[12 Nov 25 13:42 UTC] No.45900057[source]▶
It would be so much cheaper for the companies to support this than out their own solution
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2. gjvc ◴[12 Nov 25 13:44 UTC] No.45900082[source]▶
but then they wouldn't own it.
3. foofoo12 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:45 UTC] No.45900100[source]▶
You're missing the bigger picture. Vendor lock in.
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4. throwaway838112 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:51 UTC] No.45900175[source]▶
Not only that, but the owners of big companies are actively lobbying to pay even less taxes. They are ideologically opposed to supporting public benefit projects.