[lugm.org] OpenSSH is in financial trouble

[Loganaden Velvindron]

Hi Nishal !

I think this is a really good idea (ok, I'm slightly biased towards
OpenBSD), I think we all agree that OpenSSH is critical to
our workplace.

I'll pledge money too in LUGM's name.

Anybody else :-) ?

--- On Wed, 20/4/11, Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org> wrote:

From: Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [lugm.org] OpenSSH is in financial trouble
To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <discuss at lugm.org>
Date: Wednesday, 20 April, 2011, 8:17

On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Logan,

> OpenSSH could cease to exist. Why ? The OpenBSD CD sales
> are very much less this year. OpenSSH is financed through
> the OpenBSD CD sales.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=130317982728763&w=2
> 
> To cut a long story short, if OpenBSD doesn't sell enough
> CDs with the 4.9 release, there WILL be no money for producing
> CDs next year. Part of the CD sales keep Theo de raadt employed
> full-time on openbsd. 

Thanks for pointing this out !

In 2005, a few of us put up cash to help support TCP modifications to FreeBSD:
http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/tcpoptimization.html

If you'd like to do something similar for:
http://www.openssh.org/donations.html
...in LUGM's name, I'd be happy to pledge a donation.
(if not, I will do a personal donation)

I don't really want an OpenBSD t-shirt or CD though :-)

--n.
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