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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]▶

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> 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. Aurornis ◴[12 Nov 25 14:08 UTC] No.45900367[source]▶

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FYI the big companies provide their own NTP servers and pools. You can use them if you’d like.

They also don’t use the reference implementation (which is maintained by the group this donation is for). Your distros and software probably doesn’t use it either.

The commenter above who thinks shutting down the NTP Foundation will hurt FAANG because they “leech” off of NTP Foundation is completely uninformed.

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