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The who now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills ? He passed last year.
Aw. Shit.
What about him? The Wikipedia page seems pretty normal at first glance.
Years ago it came to light that NTP (and OpenSSL if I remember right) were being run by like.. one dude (4 staff for OpenSSL?) on the tiniest trickle of donations, despite how vital the service was. It's a long time since I became aware so I may have misremembered.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency