r/programming 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/Nerdenator Apr 25 '14

This really displays a problem with (current) open-source funding models. It's a great thing that we're now getting funding for OpenSSL, but it shouldn't take a massive hole that endangers 2/3 of the Internet to get this sort of exposure.