Dell, Cisco, Microsoft, Google and friends shower OpenSSL in $$$s to make it all better

  • 24 April 2014
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Web, IT goliaths to pour gold into more open-source code

By Jack Clark, 24 Apr 2014  Tech's biggest names have vowed to pour cash into crucial open-source projects that glue the web together – and hopefully kill off any dire bugs that could wreck the net.
 
The Linux Foundation announced on Thursday that it had formed "The Core Infrastructure Initiative" to fund open projects that are critical to the functioning of the internet.
 The goal is to make sure the recent Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability and worse omnishambles never happen again. It comes after the chap who accidentally introduced the Heartbleed bug called for more people to work on the OpenSSL code. The library is used across the world to secure websites, VPNs and more from eavesdroppers and tamperers.
"The Core Infrastructure Initiative is a multi-million dollar project housed at The Linux Foundation to fund open-source projects that are in the critical path for core computing functions," the Linux Foundation declared.
 
 
 
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Wish they would throw some money in my direction...LOL

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Glad to see them step up and put some money towards it.  Partly out of self-interest though 🙂
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Absolutely...they would never spend hard earned dollars on some giveaway...there has obviously been a calculation done...and this is the result. ;)

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