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Mozilla Foundation Donates $10K to OpenSSH

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the breath-of-fresh-air dept.

eklitzke writes to tell us the OpenBSD journal is reporting that the Mozilla Foundation is donating $10,000 USD to the OpenSSH project. This comes as good news after the recent reported financial troubles from the OpenBSD and by extension the OpenSSH team. It seems that quite a few people have answered the call for aid made by OpenBSD's de Raadt.

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  1. Congratulations to the Mozilla Foundation by stox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For clearly demonstrating they are part of the whole community. If other organizations would take the same attitude, we would all be much better for it.

    --
    "To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
  2. NO by paulpach · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You could argue 0 is too low, and even then you would be wrong. Mozilla is already giving much more: The best browser in the world whose development costed a lot more in man-hours and money. They have no obligation whatsoever of giving a dime to bsd any more than you do.

    So regardless of how much money the Mozilla foundation makes, if out of their heart, self interest or whatever decide to donate $10k ( or even $10), all you get to say is "thank you", and if you really want to show appreciation, ask "is there anything I can do for you?".

  3. OpenBSD and the money by menix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114312315700005&r= 1&w=2

    There has been such a great soap opera on this on the OpenBSD mailing list.

    It's nice to see mozilla.org donate some cash but the real money should be coming from IBM, Redhat, Cisco and all the other vendors that bundle OpenSSH into their products. Somewhere in that post is a link to an email chain where IBM demanded Theo fix a bug that was in OpenSSH. (I believe the bug was fixed in a more recent version of OpenSSH then they were bundling.)

    Sure, they could change the license for OpenSSH and start making money off it but that's missing the point of what the BSD license is all about.

    It costs a lot of money to run that project and keep ahead of the jerks who are trying to break into your systems every day.

    If you use products from vendors that have OpenSSH bundled in them and they aren't on http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html then send them an email and ask them to give regularly. that's the only thing we can do to help keep us safe on this hostile internet!

    GO PUFFY