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posted by janrinok on Friday July 10 2015, @03:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the change-of-heart? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Tork on Friday July 10 2015, @05:06AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2015, @05:06AM (#207276)
    So you're saying you have no confidence in the Foundation.
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @07:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @07:40AM (#207320)

    You can't have much confidence in anything these days.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by tibman on Friday July 10 2015, @02:06PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2015, @02:06PM (#207444)

      You sound pretty confident about that.

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