Microsoft Thanked For Its "Significant Financial Donation" To OpenBSD Foundation

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 8, 2015 @12:26PM from the strange-bedfellows dept.

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."

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Re:Why do I get the funny feeling that by bloodhawk · 2015-07-08 12:36 · Score: 5, Informative

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).