""One friend contacted my girlfriend of seven years, asking whether she would take a stand against “Adam’s role in promoting fascism.” ""

That is totally on brand for "progressives", especially west coast ones.

I am a Principal Engineer in the Open Source Programs Office at Amazon.

This is something we are very aware of, and discussions about this cross my desk weekly.

One big problem of the many problems I face regarding such proposals is the people who are the best at writing open source who need the money the most are not the people who are good at writing grant proposals and are good at sucking the money out of such funding systems.

I'm the Principal Engineer for the Open Source Program Office at Amazon. We've gotten much better about being responsive and inclined to open source projects like that.

Email me at atwoodm@amazon.com, and tell me what the internal code names for your projects were, and were you were in the org. I'll see what I can do.

My elisp config file dates back to 1986. It's almost entirely unchanged. It still works. I have never had to remove anything because it stopped working. I just occasionally add stuff to it every few years.

Complaints about "toxic" are a screen to hide the fact that you can't say "incorrect".

About 5 years ago, Hewlett-Packard tried being a paid GSuite customer, paying for tens of thousands of seats, with a path to onboarding the entire company. We could not get support, or even a TAM who would answer their phone.

After a year, HP dumped GSuite, and went to O365 instead. We got a responsive TAM, full multi-tier support, and white glove handholding for migration. And, I think it was cheaper, too.

There is NO level of spending as a customer at which Google actually gives a shit.

Of interest, about that particular NYT journalist: https://medium.com/@garyweiss_86200/cade-metz-pulls-a-deep-c...

I'm the PM for this project, and can answer questions. Don't speculate about this project, ask me instead!

From what I read on the ntpsec website, it's essentially a clean up of the ntp codebase as the latter has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years.

OpenBSD developed OpenNTPD precisely because of the state of the ntp codebase. Why not start off this, and add the features that are missing ?

Another question: why is the Linux Foundation funding both ntpsec and ntimed ?

My previous question also applies to ntimed, but that's not for you to answer :).

What this tells me that there probably exist deeply weird images that would be recognized as something by one person or by very few people, but would be just an unrecognizable mash of colors and lines to everyone else.

I wouldn't not hire him for it.