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Comment by polycaster | Hacker News Reader

> while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis.

While it's not my business, I still wonder how this business looks like. Is curl sponsored? If so, is this a common thing for foundational tools alike?

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If you look around, you'll see the sponsors page: https://curl.se/sponsors.html

Some sponsorship is through opencollective, which includes transparent information about donations: https://opencollective.com/curl#category-BUDGET

So opencollective has it at $280k USD since sometime in 2018, not bad, that's like half of what the average Googler makes in 1 year (except spread over 5 years).

You can also see there hadn't been many big single donations in 2020 from this post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/03/curl-receives-10k-usd...

They also received €195,000 from Sovereign Tech Fund in 2022: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/curl

From Daniel's contact page:

> Just don’t send me private emails about the open source projects I participate in – unless you want to pay for commercial and private support!

So it's support basically, I suppose.

So who do I email when I'm angry at my car's screen and get lost at the "open source licenses" screen?

RMS I would presume.

He probably still works for WolfSSL [1], who I think lets him work on Curl full time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Stenberg

hence: https://xkcd.com/2347/

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