Microsoft silently donated $10,000 to CURL, netizens: rich and powerful

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Daniel Stenberg, the founder of curl, posted an email from the Microsoft Open Source Office FOSS Foundation in his blog. The email mentioned that the curl project won the vote of Microsoft employees, so every month he receives the Microsoft Free and Open Source Software Foundation (FOSS). Fund) for ten months.

The sender of the email is Emma Irwin, project manager of the Microsoft Open Source Office (OSPO). She is responsible for the Microsoft FOSS Foundation, which regularly organizes participating employees to vote. The open source project with the most votes will receive $10,000 in sponsorship, which will be distributed over ten months. The sponsorship accepts nominations from open source projects on a daily basis and votes on it monthly. In order to ensure the gold content of voting, only Microsoft employees who have contributed to open source projects can participate in the voting process.

The projects that will receive FOSS highlights in 2022 are:

• June: Nominations open, no results yet

• May: GNOME, the well-known Linux working environment, without further ado.

• April) Mobile interactive map JavaScript library Leaflet and base module systemd for Linux systems

• February: MSYS2, tools for building, installing, and running native Windows software.

• January: curl , the command line/script data transfer tool

It can be seen that the voting round won by cURL is January 2022, and the acceptance of donations also starts in January. However, Emma Irwin, who is in charge of the FOSS fund, forgot to send a sponsorship notification email to Daniel, the founder of curl, which made Daniel unclear why Microsoft regularly sponsors cURL. It wasn’t until July that she was reminded (“I usually send an email notification to the winner of the project’s vote, but someone pointed out that I forgot to notify curl of the win, and I couldn’t find any contact records.”) that Emma didn’t Re-send notification emails.

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