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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Thank you for your excellent work and for the incredible resilience with which you endure billions of opinions every day! Have a nice weekend :D
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I always kinda hated this one. I think the point to businesses is real, sure, but it’s important to note that the term “hobby” is used somewhat derisively here. Open source developers and maintainers often see their projects as contributions, not hobbies. I feel like when we accept this narrative, we’re accepting the lie that the only legitimate software is software produced by and/or produced for corporations. I’m not willing to give businesses that monopoly too.
in reply to manchicken moved!

@manchicken I've seen this strip often and never once have taken the use of 'hobby' to be in any way derisive. Such projects may well be professional-grade or better, but that does not mean that it's not a hobby for the maintainers. And there's nothing wrong with that at all.
in reply to Elengale

@elengale @manchicken the original xkcd 2347 strip does not use the word "hobby" anywhere though. My version use that as a reference to a comment on my blog a while back. The phrase in the lower right is a direct quote from that.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@manchicken Whoops, point taken. It's been a while and looks like I took the edit to be pretty convincing!
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Honestly, I'm really glad you kept it open and free to use instead of taking such an important thing and cashing in on it like some other softwares have done.

Thanks a lot!

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Kinda funny, on friday I literally replaced curl in a codebase with.... curl.

Just a different interface to still use curl. 😅

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Out of curiosity, what's the other solid block just below #libcurl? #TianoCore? Actually, can libcurl run directly on top of #UEFI APIs?
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

OK. Then we should redraw the picture a bit to show that there are multiple kernels, multiple TCP/IP stacks, multiple TLS libraries, but only ONE libcurl.

Variety above and variety below, but one solid block in between, used by virtually everyone.