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Dumb question - how much does the curl project need?

I see lots of people saying this is basically like crumbs for pigeons, but no idea what a fully funded curl project would be.

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bagder could probably be a Staff level engineer at $BIGCORP, so at the very least, enough to pay him a hefty sum of money per year, plus all the overhead of actually running the project.

I'd rather the curl author receive various smaller donations from various companies than receive $BIGCORP donations from one company.

The former is at least somewhat resistant to conflicts of interest.

Then he should be a $POSITION at $BIGCORP. I don't think this is the correct way to determine how much money a project needs.

Exactly. Attitude here seems to be kicking gift horse in the mouth.

I see your point. It's very valid. At the same time, it would be nice for multi-billion dollar companies to dish out just a bit more than 10k, you know?

Unless you favor central planning economies, none of us except the developers have any say into what the project "needs". The better question are "what is the project worth?" and "how willing am I to take on the burden of supporting them?"

That's what I'm saying. Time allocation is a personal choice.

The value of his time is not, and time is not an infinite resource.

From what I read somewhere it's close to a full time job, so a typical tech salary would seem fair.

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