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CachyOS is sponsored by Cloudflare - what does that mean? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 days ago by Genius@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world
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CachyOS looks really good, and I want to try it. But what's the effect of being sponsored by cloudflare? Is it FOSS? Does it collect data? What's Cloudflare getting out of the sponsorship?

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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Big companies use FOSS themselves, it makes sense for them to fund it. By being FOSS, they get to benefit from third party contributions for free.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

This kinda also help ensuring the projects don't turn to crap from lack of maintenance.

[–] glowie@infosec.pub 17 points 5 days ago

I mean they also sponsored Let's Encrypt, but nothing nefarious came of it

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Companies often sponsor FOSS projects, especially if they use them internally. It doesn't mean Cloudflare has any access to data from it.

[–] SilverShark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I believe IBM has a lot of people contributing to the Kernel, right?

[–] jagged_circle 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thats kinda CFs whole business model

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They only have access to data if you use them as a proxy on a DNS record, otherwise they're just a normal DNS system.

[–] jagged_circle 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes. So only >99% of configs.

I agree just using cf for DNS only significantly reduces the harm they cause.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago

It means they paid money or provided a service free of charge or with a significant rebate in exchange for advertisement. It's probably no more than that.

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

It means CF can use it as a tax write-off. Maybe one of the devs that use Linux want an optimized gaming setup when they're off work.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 5 points 5 days ago

Tbh I think they might just be providing download servers.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Clownflare is trash, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it in this particular case.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 12 points 5 days ago

They're fighting against AI scrapers, are objectively one of the best CDN providers and they offer a quite decent DNS resolver service. I wouldn't call them trash.