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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."
Probably because you haven't yet realized that the Halloween Emails were 17 years ago.
Maybe it's time to move on.
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're adding SSH support into windows. It behooves them to make sure the foundation is well supported.
I'm trying -- but it's hard!
Actually, it's not hard, and it's very very tiny.
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?
what does SJW mean?
Software Justice Warriors. The SJW are people who are mad because they were born too late to fight the actual software injustices of the past, such as the Netscape debacle or the decision to call the unix command "umount" instead of "unmount", so they join digital lynch mobs at the slightest hint of possible software controversy, hoping to fill the void in their existence with strongly worded paragraphs of significantly misinformed opinions about problems that either don't exist or that are blown out of proportions.
lucm, indeed.
You should add a net on top of your head so you can catch all the things soaring over it.