OpenBSD Journal: OpenBSD Finances | Linux Today

OpenBSD Journal: OpenBSD Finances

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 22, 2006

“I know you saw a blurb from Bob a few days ago and many of you
purchased and/or donated some cash, thank you very much for that!
The bad news is that OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss
of approximately $20K USD ($40K total). I don’t think I need to
explain in many words what that is doing to our beloved OS, and
worse, our main systems architect. This is starting to seriously
impede the development of OpenBSD and OpenSSH. A lot of serious
architecture and development is done at hackathons around the
world…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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