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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?
And I think I spotted some pigs flying up there too....
Can we start calling them M$ again?
I guess Theo doesn't object to Microsoft so badly that he isn't willing to pocket their bribes.
The OpenBSD Foundation lists its directors on its website.
Theo is not one of them.
Microsoft found out that a group of their developers used a bunch of BSD code in Windows 10. It was described in meetings as 'a lot of open source software' so they immediately allocated a few million to bury the issue. Then someone said it wasn't GPL code it as BSD code but the money move was already on the books, or off the books so the best move was a donation and when it was realized how much BSD code really was in Windows it was decided it should go to BSD.
Nadella almost threw his coffee across the room, not strong enough to throw his chair, but Bill reminded him how those kinds of things find their way out in the open.
or not.
It would be nice to see OpenSSH on Windows (included the in default distribution).
Microsoft opensource is your friend. Don't be afraid to use more of it!
....why don't also stop trolling with their patents the companies that uses Android. http://www.zdnet.com/article/m...
The OpenBSD Foundation is a seperate fund raising entity for OpenBSD
Not a dime to the FSF or EFF
You are just one of those fucking assholes who like to shit all over people. If Theo was willing to give up the $2million DoD grant because he wanted to speak up about the Iraqi war, he sure as hell isn't going to be influenced by $50k.
Assholes like you are what give ACs a bad name.
Microsoft at one point was the #1 vendor of Unix software. They wrote the Unix for a Radio Shack system that was the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world at the time.
Microsoft inherited a huge BSD infrastructure when they bought Skype, they maintained it for years.
Microsoft is the #1 vendor of software for the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world, OSX.
Slashdot comment subjects are limited to 50 characters. Microsoft sells Visual Basic, which is the descendant of a language in which string variable names ended with a dollar sign: A$ or B$ or M$. Until these facts change, I'll keep referring to Microsoft as M$ in comment subjects. Think of it as variable interpolation analogous to "thank $DEITY".
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.
Apparently that was Xenix for the TRS-80 Model 16. I seem to remember Microsoft selling Xenix to SCO, with a lot of the code filtering into what became SCO OpenServer.
Theo's masturbating monkeys with Bill Gates winged monkeys to produce monkeys who can both simultaneously fly and masturbate. No alternative operating system or newly washed car will be safe.
You didn't look very hard for that number. It took me less than a minute. Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Iridium amounts (and donors) are found here http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...
-- "At Microsoft, quality is job 1.1" -- PC Magazine, Nov. 1994
It's sad that $50K is a "Gold" contribution
It sounds like they're expecting lots of large donors. For the FreeBSD Foundation, it would count as Platinum. Gold is $25,000-$49,999. The rates were set when the Foundation was new and getting anyone to donate more than a few hundred dollars was hard. They've had to add Platinum, Iridium and Uranium on top of that (a few years ago, a company - NetApp, I think, but I could be wrong - donated on the condition that they were able to say that they were the only donor in the top category, so had a category made specially for them, with the threshold set at double the largest donation from the previous year. They've since had to share the top spot, so it's been good for the Foundation).
The Linux Foundation gets much bigger donations by effectively selling access to senior developers. If you want someone in your company to have face-to-face time with Linus, then you have to add a lot of zeros to the end of your donation (and good luck getting your code into mainline Linux if you haven't done this). The BSDs run their developer summits as a meritocracy, so any contributors can attend, even if they haven't paid anything.
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This is probably a case of MS trying desperately to subvert the rise of linux by promoting fragmentation and confusion in the market.
I hope I am wrong. I hope this is just another milestone in their valiant pivoting efforts and not something nefarious.
If I am really hopeful, I would love to see a future OpenBSD version with a solid windows like GUI and vast driver support.
I hate how a lot of posters on here these days criticise people for still saying MS is evil. They assume this is all ancient history.
In the last few years they have threatened to sue Android phone sellers unless they sign a licensing agreement with MS. Based on unspecified patents being infringed in the Linux kernel. The ones that have leaked out look very dubious.
Not very long ago they corrupted the ooxml standards process. We could all have been using open document formats by now.
Still can't buy from a large vendor a non-server PC without an OS.