Microsoft silently donated $10000 to curl, which was not notified until half a year later

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In recent years , To express support for the open source community , Microsoft free and open source software foundation （FOSS） It provides a channel for Microsoft engineers to directly participate in the nomination and selection , So as to help these engineers' favorite projects .curl The project was selected in January this year , Microsoft provides 1 $10000 in funding , branch 10 Periodic payment .

However, after paying most of the money , Microsoft just realized that it had donated money but had not announced it ！

Microsoft “ Do well without leaving a name ”

By convention ,FOSS The most popular project will be selected by voting every month , And provide it with 1 Ten thousand dollars in sponsorship . To help promote the entire Microsoft open contribution culture , Even when employees participate in projects that are not under the jurisdiction of Microsoft , Also qualified to choose projects for the Fund . meanwhile , Only employees who have contributed to open source projects can participate in the selection process .

curl founder Daniel Stenberg Recently, Microsoft's open source office was published in the blog FOSS Email from the Fund , Mentioned in the email curl The project in 1 Microsoft employees won the vote in January .

all the time , Microsoft open source office (OSPO) Project manager of Emma Irwin be responsible for FOSS Fund projects , but Emma Irwin But forgot to give it in time curl founder Daniel Send notification email of sponsorship , Lead to Daniel It is not clear why Microsoft regularly gives curl sponsorship . until 7 month Emma I was reminded that （ The original is “ I usually send email notification to the winner of the project vote , But someone pointed out that I forgot to inform curl News of victory , And I can't find any contact records .“）, Just reissued the notification email .

Up to now ,2022 received FOSS The items donated by the collection are as follows （https://github.com/microsoft/foss-fund/blob/main/README.md#how-the-fund-works）：

6 month ： Nominations are open , No results

5 month ：GNOME, Well-known Linux The work environment .

4 month ： Mobile interactive map JavaScript library Leaflet And for Linux The basic module of the system systemd

2 month ：MSYS2, Used to build 、 Install and run this machine Windows Software tools .

1 month ：curl , Command line / Script data transfer tool ,curl It is used by almost all human beings using the Internet all over the world every day .

curl It's popular

As one of the most widely used open source projects today ,curl There are more than 100 Billion installation . From red hat Linux、Debian Until then Mac OS、Windows 10、iOS and Android, Even Nintendo Switch、Xbox And Sony PS5 And computer games 、 Media players and set top boxes, etc , There is no shortage curl The figure of .

curl The project was officially born in 1998 year , It's a product that uses URL Syntax file transfer tool that works on the command line , from Daniel Write the curl And created libcurl library . up to now , More than half of the submissions in the code base are made by Daniel I submitted , He is still the core developer of the project .Daniel It was said that ,“curl It's like my own child ”.

Daniel Said he chose open source curl, Because he used to use a lot of open source software and benefited a lot from it . He hopes to be as cool as other open source authors . Because of open source , Thousands of developers from all over the world are involved in helping improve curl, Including the project itself , file , Website and other peripheral details .Daniel Think , If you don't choose open source , that curl and libcurl Will never be achieved .

In this year 1 After being elected as the most popular open source project in January , Although it took half a year for the notice to arrive , But this matter still causes many developers to rejoice .

《reddit》 The hot reviews on the website represent the aspirations of the vast majority of people ：

“crul It's definitely worth it ！ Then there will be other projects ”

“ I love it so much curl 了 ！ There are rumors that use will be restricted in the office curl. If they dare , I'll end them .”

“ I really can't think of any other projects that deserve this honor , Congratulations curl.”

 

meanwhile , There are also many people who will Daniel As a treasure of the world ！

With the torrent of open source rolling forward , Perhaps more and more open source developers will work together Daniel Through their unremitting efforts in open source , Gain respect from all over the world . However, among them , There is still a long way to go .Daniel Once said , At the very beginning , I spent it myself 2 It takes years to make curl achieve 300 Number of downloads per time , It's over again. 10 About years ago , It's really widely used . Now 24 Years have passed , The founder and chief developer has remained in this project .

Reference material ：https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/07/22/microsoft-foss-fund-winner-curl/

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