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Microsoft Thanked For Its "Significant Financial Donation" To OpenBSD Foundation
McGruber writes: Microsoft has donated a considerable amount of money to the OpenBSD Foundation, becoming its first-ever Gold level contributor in the process. From the OpenBSD Journal: "The OpenBSD Foundation is happy to announce that Microsoft has made a significant financial donation to the Foundation. This donation is in recognition of the role of the Foundation in supporting the OpenSSH project. This donation makes Microsoft the first Gold level contributor in the OpenBSD Foundation's 2015 fundraising campaign."
Microsoft has a hidden agenda behind this donation?
Microsoft wants to see BSD succeed, that is hardly a hidden agenda. They have leveraged BSD assets greatly over the years (as well as contributed back to them).
They've already announced they want to add SSH/SCP to Windows Server 10/2016.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Without a BASH shell, GNU utilities, etc., not likely to have much impact.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Do they really need one?
I can't find an exact figure for the donation but according to http://www.openbsdfoundation.o... it was in the $25K to $50K range. That may be a lot for an opensource project running on a shoestring budget but it's pretty trivial to MS. If they get some good PR and some help with the windows port of openssh out of it then it's probablly money well spent.
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More specifically, Powershell is getting native SSH support. They didn't announce PS 5.0 will get it, but it's possible 5.1 or 6.0 will see it, version releases have been getting more frequent. A major change like full SSH support would warrant jumping a whole version number, I would think. Maybe released with the next version of Windows Server, sometime next year? That would be great news.
moox. for a new generation.
Show me someone from the open source community who has helped and donated more towards charities than Bill Gates. Uh huh, that's what I thought.
Bill - is that you? Don't forget to lodge your claims for charitable donations - we filed it under "the spit shield fund".
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (foundation) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Both entities are tax-exempt private foundations that are structured as a charitable.
One good thing Bill Gates has done. Though not everyone agrees.
For fuck's sake... it's been how many decades and you people still can't get this right?
Godwin's Law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." That's it! None of this "losing the argument" bullshit.