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Curl now runs in cars from 47 major automotive brands including Tesla, BMW, Toyota, and Mercedes, representing several hundred million vehicles. Despite this widespread adoption in the automotive industry, none of these companies sponsor or financially support the curl project, highlighting challenges in open source sustainability where critical infrastructure is used freely without contributing back to its development.

car brands running curl

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides

One of the more surprising things about software is that, for most things we treat like water and air, there’s actually just one guy somewhere in Sweden on a meager salary making sure it exists out of the pure good of his heart.

This is great to know. It seems cURL needs to have an opencollective account for funding.

this is why i consider billionaires parasites, they want everything given to them and you to pay top dollar.