Some unexpected news 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."
[Editor Update] Techrights has a different take on the reasons behind the funding, speculating that:
Windows is known for gaping holes [...] i.e. the very opposite of OpenBSD. For these two entities to work together (NSA resistor and the NSA's number one partner) is to have an incompatible relationship. Nothing on top of Windows can be secured and as we pointed out in our past articles about this, SSH keys will be put at risk. Microsoft's 'help' to OpenBSD reminds us of Microsoft's 'help' to Novell, where the goal was to use Novell to promote Windows, even inside Linux (e.g. Hyper-V).
It's not a payment intended to help OpenSSH development. Microsoft looks to get its money's worth (shareholders' money). So it's about putting secure Free software on an insecure proprietary software platform (with back doors), in order to promote and increase its use.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @04:16AM
Right then, scum have taken over SSH. To hell with it, the time has come for a replacement. Somebody write a secure implementation of Back Orifice, call it Front Orifice, and let's all fuck our servers right in the pussy!
(Score: 5, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 10 2015, @06:52AM
Hey, give Microsoft a break -- they're gotta lay off 18,000 employees [soylentnews.org] to afford that donation!
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Friday July 10 2015, @07:33AM
No thanks, my server's a dude.
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