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

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Why do I get the funny feeling that by ClaraBow · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Microsoft has a hidden agenda behind this donation?

    1. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by halivar · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Probably because you haven't yet realized that the Halloween Emails were 17 years ago.

      Maybe it's time to move on.

    2. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by wasabiiiiiii · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They're adding SSH support into windows. It behooves them to make sure the foundation is well supported.

    3. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Time to move on...but still realize they're a for-profit corporation. It's not like they're all all warm and fuzzy now, sounds like they're tending toward neutral.

      In any case, the bottom line is that anything they do will always be based 100% on a profit motive. Whether through ultra-aggressive illegal techniques like in the past, or perhaps now by simply competing smartly and innovating (yes Virginia even for Microsoft it's possible!).

    4. Re:Why do I get the funny feeling that by the_B0fh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If Theo is willing to give up the $2million DoD grant because he felt he should speak up against the Iraqi war, what makes you think a piddling $50k is going to affect Theo's code or design?

    5. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by QuietLagoon · · Score: 1, Insightful

      how me someone from the open source community who has helped and donated more...

      No one from the open source community has used a monopoly to take profits out of the PC industry and profited from it as Bill Gates did.

      .
      Gates' money is tainted, and it appears he is trying to buy his way into a good place in history.

    6. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by Holi · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No one has driven more profits into the PC industry either.

      --
      Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
    7. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 3, Insightful

      In the classic essay 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' the people writing the Cathedral code were the GNU Emacs development team.

      Just sayin'.

    8. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by Pseudonym+Authority · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Putting an operating system that you don't like does not make the money tainted. Simplifying licensing by issuing site licenses to PC makers is not evil. Get over yourself and get some perspective. Much more horrible things have been done in the pursuit of money than making a bunch of hippies at the FSF pissed off.

    9. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by FranTaylor · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The linux developers have collectively donated the value of Linux, (roughly estimated at $10.8 billion), to the community.

    10. Re:Why do I get the funny feeling that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      BSD software can be forked to GPL anytime, and then that fork is closed to commercial use. If MS makes OpenBSD great and then becomes a shit, OpenBSD can be forked to a GPL state and MS gets to keep the pieces it paid for.

      Seems like a great relationship to me.

    11. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by brianerst · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Whoooosh!

    12. Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It is the new slashdot. An AC makes a pretty good but old joke and stays at 0 moderation. Someone else ruins it by explaining the joke and gets +5 informative.

      Next up, something about Natalie Portman and breakfast food gets moderated -1 for being a sign of the patriarchy systemic in STEM.

  2. Re:Question by just+another+AC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry but evil empire of this decade is definitely Apple, they just need to finish locking everyone in to their services on every industry (including financial), before they really turn the screws. They are like Google in the early 00's where they are only showing hints of their future evils.

  3. Microsoft loves Unix by FranTaylor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft at one point was the #1 vendor of Unix software. They wrote the Unix for a Radio Shack system that was the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world at the time.

    Microsoft inherited a huge BSD infrastructure when they bought Skype, they maintained it for years.

    Microsoft is the #1 vendor of software for the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world, OSX.