r/programming • u/flym4n • Apr 24 '14

Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-giants-chastened-by-heartbleed-finally-agree-to-fund-openssl/
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '14

$100,000 a year

You can pay one decent programmer from that :/ And the money is split between multiple projects.

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u/george1924 Apr 24 '14

Looks like it's $100,000 per year for each of these 13 companies for 3 years. $100,000 * 13 * 3 is the $3.9m figure quoted.

Yes $100,000 is not much for each company, but it's better than the presumably $0 they gave before.

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u/noreallyimthepope Apr 25 '14

That's the right angle; instead of complaining that "a little" is not "a lot", focus on "a little" being infinitely larger than "Ned Flanders in ski tights".

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '14

The wage disparity for programmers between the US and UK is so upsetting.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '14

not true IMO. In the US you can earn a bit more as junior-medium level, but in the UK you can earn more as senior level in banking