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Donation to the sum of 15,600 US dollars. From the article: "Backblaze was started in my living room on Jan 15, 2007 (13 years ago tomorrow) and that represents $100/month for every month Backblaze has depended on libcurl back to the beginning." -- Brian Wilson, CTO of Backblaze

Very good solution.

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I wonder if they'll commit to $100/mo going forward... After all, they're still using it!

Yev here -> We love open source (our erasure coding, storage pods, other stuff is all out there) and after we got his email we did realized our error and wanted to make things right with Daniel and libcurl, it seemed like the fair thing to do!

Cool, cool, so desktop Linux client is coming along then? Or is B2 / alternative vendors the only foreseeable option?

No Linux client on the horizon - B2 is your way to go!

B2's great until you store more than 1.2Tb. After that you're penalised for your choice in OS.

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