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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Companies often sponsor FOSS projects, especially if they use them internally. It doesn’t mean Cloudflare has any access to data from it.
I believe IBM has a lot of people contributing to the Kernel, right?
I mean they also sponsored Let’s Encrypt, but nothing nefarious came of it
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.
This kinda also help ensuring the projects don’t turn to crap from lack of maintenance.
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.
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.
Clownflare is trash, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it in this particular case.
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.
They also force you to hand over all traffic, including https by MITMing it. Unless you have the enterprise license.
