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."

Comments

Re:Question

[Sowelu]

As the evil empire of this decade, we really need a snarky nickname like that for Google.

Re: OpenSSH on Windows

[FranTaylor]

that's funny, ssh works just great on VMS and it doesn't have bash or GNU utilities or anything like that.

Re: Why do I get the funny feeling that

[Pseudonym Authority]

That is a much bigger contribution than giving some amount of money that doesn't even affect his lifestyle.

That's stupid. A bigger personal sacrifice perhaps, but there is no way that it's a bigger contribution. Suppose you donate time to a soup kitchen on a Saturday. That's great, good for you[i]![/i] You fed maybe fifty bums. A million dollar donation, though, could keep twenty people doing it full time employed for an entire year. That's over 18,000 hungry bellies filled.

So, which is a ``bigger contribution''? Being visible while helping so that everyone knows what a good person you are, or maximizing the amount of good actually done?

Re:Why do I get the funny feeling that

[Billly Gates]

Microsoft has a hidden agenda behind this donation?

Because Microsoft has stated they wanted to use OpenSSH for Powershell and remote desktop in future versions if you Google past stories here. In essence they are paying them to do the heavy lifting for them and the community wins too.

THis is something desperately needed as it could be a great vulnerability if someone can crask the SAM database and impersonate a domain admin and do major damage via powershell which by the day is more and more powerful. In Server 2016 they will really hit taking out the GUI hard and have 100% of every task from the command line in Powershell.

OpenSSH will create a much needed additional step to do the damage and could be the next killer feature of WIndows Server 2016.

Re:Microsoft loves Unix

[TheRaven64]

It was Hotmail, not Skype, and it ran on FreeBSD for a few years after the acquisition. Microsoft was, apparently, fairly happy with it, but it coincided with their attempts to push Windows NT into the server space and their customers kept asking 'If Windows NT is so good, why do you use UNIX to serve Hotmail?' THey tried to migrate to NT4 and it was a complete disaster, which was what led to a lot of the features in Windows 2000 Server. They successfully migrated it to 2000.