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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. Contribution made to OpenSSH or OpenBSD? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is this going directly to OpenSSH efforts, or to OpenBSD in general? There's nothing in there that specifically states which.

    There has been much talk in the recent past about the difference between wanting to support OpenBSD (and by default, OpenSSH), and just OpenSSH itself. Is it even possible to support 'just' OpenSSH?

    Either way, a classy move by the Mozilla Foundation.

    Now if you guys can just make Thunderbird stop sucking, I'd be much happier.

  2. Serious question. by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is this something that can be deducted from Income Tax as a charitable donation?

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    1. Re:Serious question. by Scott+Wunsch · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Honestly, I can't think for the life of me why they haven't become a non-profit yet.

      They may well be. However, they're also Canadian. That means:

      1. Just incorporating as a non-profit isn't enough. They'd also have to register as a charity, and in Canada, that means a lot of paperwork, and a lot of restrictions.
      2. I'm not sure how international donations work for tax purposes, but I bet it still wouldn't be easy for Americans to write off their donations, even if OpenBSD were set up as a Canadian charitable organization.
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  3. Trace the source by quokkapox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This money is coming from the Mozilla Foundation, which makes serious dough from google searches run via the firefox browser's default start page and the default search engine field. So use firefox, hit CTRL-k to search with google, and keep it going.

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  4. Re:Congratulations to the Mozilla Foundation by Kelson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1. Given that Mozilla does acutlaly have a revenue stream in addition to donations, what makes you think that $10K is all redirected donations?

    2. Given that "the Mozilla project uses SSH extensively for various purposes, including securing connections to the Mozilla CVS repository," perhaps supporting further development of OpenSSH might be considered important for continued development of the browser?

    What about other uses of money that aren't directly "improving the browser?" Would it be acceptable for MoFo to buy new servers for download mirrors? Support forums? How about Windows licenses or Mac hardware for development workstations, build boxes, and QA?

    3. While we're at it, what is it with the donate-but-with-strings-attached attitude these days?