[systems_glitch]

Oh man that sucks! I wonder if we could pull Alpine into our colo, we recently upgraded to a full rack from 2U (it was cheaper than a quarter rack!) and have a ton of space. Plus all of our libvirt/KVM HVMs run Alpine.

[plagiarist]

It's surprising to me that Alpine isn't set for life from corporate donations. They're my first choice for laying down the foundation in a container.

[klardotsh]

Aside from some major examples, like most of the big tech companies funding the Linux kernel and maybe the Rust and/or Python Foundations in decent numbers, for the most part, corporations don't pay for open-source. That's why they love it so much: it costs ~$0, but generates immense business value for them (in that they don't have to write, debug, or maintain any of that, often essential, code or infra).

I can think of maybe three exceptions my entire career, and none of them were especially huge contributions.

[rollcat]

This is why: https://m.xkcd.com/2347/

Now go ask your employer to donate.