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305 points gastonmorixe | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | 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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jillesvangurp ◴[12 Nov 25 14:00 UTC] No.45900265[source]▶
This raises a lot of questions. Did they actually ask for money to these big companies? Did they get rejected?

Another approach could be to move this under the umbrella of any of the other OSS foundations. I can imagine the Linux Foundation would be a good place. Well funded, already has most of the stakeholders involved, and this clearly falls in their scope of interest at least. It would not surprise me if that wasn't discussed at some point.

This smells a bit like something that might be more complicated than it looks.

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1. emsign ◴[12 Nov 25 14:05 UTC] No.45900329[source]▶
I'd happily donate to NTP if and only if AI companies are barred from using free software like this in the future via the sw license. I don't WANT to be part of this internet that's hostile and exploitative towards users anymore.
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2. johnisgood ◴[12 Nov 25 15:40 UTC] No.45901509[source]▶
I think we ought to buckle up because it only seems to be getting worse, quickly.