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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. Re:Contribution made to OpenSSH or OpenBSD? by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lies. They donated the money to Theo de Raadt. If he wants to buy old hats with it he is free to do so. Although it's more likely he'll buy lots and lots of noodles or cola with it.

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  2. Sponsor a Geek by Noksagt · · Score: 0, Redundant
    What you want is much like saying that you want to donate to Thunderbird, but not have the money go to the Firefox crew, as you only use Thunderbird. The same foundation is working on both, so the money goes to the group as a whole.
    I wanted my money to go to Thunderbird development, so I donated to the developers of Thunderbird. There's nothing stopping you from sending honorariums to people you know who right good open code in order to encourage them to write more of it.