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1. Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2015 12:01:37 EDT Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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   #NTP is another crucial Free Software project for Internet infrastructure in trouble from inadequate financing. "If NTP should […] stop functioning […] all the critics would say, 'See, you can't trust open source code'" http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432 !fs
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2015 15:25:13 EDT Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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     • Andres
     The Linux Foundation support, which ends in April, provides Stenn with $7,000 a month to cover all the expenses of maintaining NTP, renting the data center space, and running the infrastructure required for support. Not much left for food, shelter and clothing.
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2015 23:41:57 EDT Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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     • sergiodj
     The #NTP article does seems like a copycat of the !GnuPG article. But more people contributing code doesn't improve Harlan Stenn's financial position. More people contributing code doesn't pay for servers and colocation sites and network bandwidth and travel costs. The developers at Apple and Google, NIST and NOAA, NYSE and NISSEI all understand the value of NTP, but their corporat…