{"id":802,"date":"2009-05-12T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2009-05-12T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:01:34","slug":"dear-apple-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/dear-apple-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Apple Inc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> Inc,<\/p>\n<p>As one of the primary authors of <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/\">libcurl and curl<\/a>, two parts that are included in every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\">Mac OS X<\/a> release since years back, I was only wondering if you would consider sponsoring me with a Mac, to make it easier for me to do (lib)curl development, tuning and bug-fixing on\/for the Mac?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-804 alignright\" title=\"green-apple\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/green-apple.jpg\" alt=\"green-apple\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/green-apple.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/green-apple-125x150.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t have any particular income from Macs so I don&#8217;t see how I can personally motivate spending some 2000 USD on a Mac only for curl. And to be honest, I can&#8217;t think of any other reason to get a Mac either!<\/p>\n<p>I did look around Apple&#8217;s web site to find an email adress of someone to send my plea to, but I failed. So I&#8217;ll just put it here. I have exactly <strong>no<\/strong> hope in actually accomplishing anything with this other than putting some attention on how things are.<\/p>\n<p>This post was triggered by recent libcurl bugs that seem to show up only on Mac!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Apple Inc, As one of the primary authors of libcurl and curl, two parts that are included in every Mac OS X release since years back, I was only wondering if you would consider sponsoring me with a Mac, to make it easier for me to do (lib)curl development, tuning and bug-fixing on\/for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/dear-apple-inc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Apple Inc<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","category-development","tag-curl-and-libcurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}