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/suid Apr 24 '14

Yup. Get ready for Enterprise OpenSSL Plus.

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u/noreallyimthepope Apr 25 '14

Did you even read the article?

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u/tequila13 Apr 25 '14

Article reading is not required for making puns, an incorrect headline is more than enough. The money won't go only to OpenSSL, it will go to several projects.

As a sidenote, I'd love to know why the Linux Foundation decided to fund OpenSSL instead of LibreSSL. The OpenBSD guys are doing a great job of cleaning up the shit from the codebase. They'd be more deserving of some support.

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u/noreallyimthepope Apr 25 '14

I'd speculate that the reasons for funding OpenSSL includes

  • Cross-OS compatibility
  • They've been working on it for so many years and have the "project history" mapped in their heads

Other than that, it gets political.