Not even $700 a month? Seriously, there must be thousands of highly profitable companies depending on this guy’s maintenance. Once this is all sorted, please hassle your employers to give something back to him!
replySomeone tell Ondřej to sell some self-published "guide to PHP" for $200 and we can easily expense that.
replyYeah this, I always see so much hate towards businesses for finding tax loopholes or not donating etc but people forget that businesses are made of individuals with their own often conflicting subgoals, but overall has to try to maximize profit so they will never voluntarily pay more tax than legal minimum or be philanthropic if they do not have to or do not benefit explicitly.
replyOpen source projects are severely undervalued.
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replyWhile we're at it, please hassle employers to donate to OpenBSD so we don't get another heartbleed
replyThank you for calling this out. I absolutely rely on him so I decided to contribute $100/month even though I'm a solo dev with a business yet to see profit. But I absolutely rely on him for my server(s) PHP packages.
replySimilarly Remi for the RedHat-derivative side of things: https://blog.remirepo.net (he's on vacation, but apparently is pushing updates now).
replyThere is a one time option on his github as well for those who don't want to do subscriptions.
replySpeaking of, the PHP PPA was pretty unusable all day. I wonder, if this was just high demand or intentional attacks on launchpad servers to prolong the exploitation window.
replyDude even backported the fix to his 5.6->8.0 branches
replyNewest: 5.6.40-104 which has the CVE fixes.