On a laptop? Things have apparently moved forward a lot since I last shopped.

since writing this comment gives me goosebumps on how much valuable curl is to the whole world. A lot of technical knowledge / literally everything feels like it has been shifted into using curl and I am pretty sure that companies are using curl too.

Surprised, that no laptop company other than framework decided to help the author of curl.

I don't want to be cynical but companies can spend Billions hiring some person for some AI benchmark improvement or just this AI craze in general when just imagine how much growth could really happen if billions were rather spent in open source contributers well being.

I personally feel like I am being held back to open source software since I would love to work on open source project that I created or can help maintain but I do think that no money can sadly be derived since I am pretty sure that I won't recreate something as phenomenal as curl and most open source contributors sadly don't get any money.

Its either philosophy or the money, sadly its about hunger. I appreciate how the author of curl had crowdfunding efforts but honestly, curl is just so great software that it technically could be worth definitely a few hundred millions if it was a company and (propritory?), I appreciate how the author is thankful but to me what feels better is to rather create a company get some few million $ and then donate to open source contributors while not having to worry about money.

It is a sad reality that most people don't contribute to open source, the economics of foss is a sad reality.