Google Open Source Peer Bonus award 2020: 250 USD to curl (daniel.haxx.se)

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y42 6y ago ↗

Does anyone know if Google is supporting curl / Stenberg in any other way?

I hope this post is written in an ironic tone. If I was this guy I would reject that money out of pride.

y42 6y ago ↗

That's why I was asking. A billion dollar company using CURL in a commercial environment [1], and that's how they say "Thank you"?

[1] https://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html

renewiltord 6y ago ↗

That's a really cool program that it allows nominating someone from outside the company. Very nice!

Congratulations to Daniel Stenberg and good show for Gaspar Chilingarov to nominating him.

penetrator 6y ago ↗

Thank you, Google!

SQueeeeeL 6y ago ↗

I feel like this is one of those "Thinking Fast and Slow Things" where paying someone 10 cents to do something makes them more annoyed then asking them to do it for free. Like this immediately makes me go "they're a billion dollar company, they could give him thousands!!!" Even if it's irrational