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The costs involved are so small it makes me a bit sad. Such an important and useful project is struggling over costs that are less than an average engineer’s salary?

This is something that tens of thousands of engineers are getting huge value from in their daily life. I know this is a pretty common problem in the open source world, but it still sucks to see.

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We have split this up into short and long term. Right now it's just to resolve it and then looking further into a more scalable/long term option. We haven't started an external fundraising campaign yet as I hope to make progress with one of the providers if possible first. Hope to update early next week.

But that’s the question though: are they all getting such huge value from it if none of them are willing to pay for it? Or is this an issue of Nix just not even asking for money?

Even OpenSSL previously struggled to get enough funding until it finally blew up and the situation became widely known. Things aren’t easy for projects led by volunteers.

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