NTP's Fate Hinges On 'Father Time' (InformationWeek)

I'm not at all sure that's true, at least the Rubidium-clock, GPS-synched timeservers that I have are just running ntpd, which supports different radio receivers and clock hardware and probably explains some of the different hardware that the upstream maintainer needs in the test environment. I don't think it is too much to ask for the downstream commercial sellers of ntpd code to kick some resources, both financial and personnel, to keep the upstream project healthy.