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I am surprised that NTP project is not funded, fully or partially, by larger organizations or governments, given the criticality of the project.

The reference implementation, while historically important, has largely been displaced by more secure/performant implementations (ntpsec, chrony), or by in-house implementations (Amazon, Google).

Notably NTPd doesn't support leap-smear, which means those who absolutely must have monotonic time can't use it at all.

Who's running ntpsec?

At least in part, someone you really don't want to be running a fork of an important project: ESR.

I'm out of the loop. What's the issue with using a project that ESR contributes to?

I am vaguely aware he has some unpopular political beliefs (though exactly what I don't know). Is that it?

It's not the issue of using the project, to my mind.

It is not even his beliefs, though many of them are — to my ears and hopefully to most — quite repugnant.

It is his attitude, approach, and at various times the kinds of people he attracts.

As it goes, I've seen him speak, back in the 90s, CatB era. He was genial enough but he seemed to have a coterie around him of rather less pleasant people. It could just have been a bad day but it has stuck in my mind ever since: it was the first time I understood that there's not really any sort of inclsive geek community.