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

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299 points gastonmorixe | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.452s | 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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1. kristopolous ◴[12 Nov 25 14:41 UTC] No.45900811[source]▶
Is there any endowment for such projects?

Something like money to the endowment from the big corp, then would be recipients petition the endowment for ongoing funding, some board decides based on a set of open protocols...

Because honestly I've seen this a bit recently - major infrastructure projects looking for effectively pocket change; a couple thousand.

They shouldn't ever have to beg for money, this is stupid.

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2. trollbridge ◴[12 Nov 25 14:56 UTC] No.45901001[source]▶
Wikimedia Foundation sort of does now. The result of that is that their spending has ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars.