Wasn’t it offered for free?! Or was something asking in exchange?
There are plenty of licenses which are free only for non-commercial use. The author choose the “free for all” license for a reason though.
There are plenty of licenses which are free only for non-commercial use. The author choose the “free for all” license for a reason though.
> Yet, there are many curl users on the different Apple platforms and sometimes these users run into issues that are unique to those platforms and are challenging to address without direct access to such.
In other words, it's to Apple's own detriment if the author of curl doesn't have access to Apple hardware.
curl is offered for free, and the consequence of that is the author of curl is under no obligation to support Apple platforms or shell out money for Apple hardware.
First sentence of the article: "A generous member of the wider curl community stepped up and donated an unused Mac mini m1 model to me to be used for curl development."
Edit - Looking at https://opencollective.com/curl, the project received $64,000 in donations, and the developer is employed, full-time, by a company to work on cURL. You'd have slightly more of a point if this were not the case, however as it stands it looks like a whine about Apple.
If you read the other comments on this submission, it's not just my opinion.
> Doesn't make it any more (or less) valid than the question I'm posing; why is the developer entitled to Apple providing hardware for testing?
That's the wrong question. The developer is not entitled to Apple hardware and never claimed to be entitled.
The issue is explained in my earlier comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34183736
To repeat myself:
> Yet, there are many curl users on the different Apple platforms and sometimes these users run into issues that are unique to those platforms and are challenging to address without direct access to such.
In other words, it's to Apple's own detriment if the author of curl doesn't have access to Apple hardware.
curl is offered for free, and the consequence of that is the author of curl is under no obligation to support Apple platforms or shell out money for Apple hardware.
> You develop software for MacOS, do you expect a free Mac?
This is a straw man. Apple does not ship my software with macOS, unlike curl. Also, I make money selling Mac software, unlike curl.