[ Thanks to Puffy for this link. ]
Once again, the OpenBSD project is asking for donations to keep
its operations in motion. It doesn’t ask for much–U.S. $100,000
[&euro83,300] (small potatoes in the operating system
development industry)–yet it provides so much to the software
world. Even if you don’t use OpenBSD, you’re likely to be
benefiting from it unknowingly. If you’re using Solaris, SCO
UnixWare, OS X, SUSE Linux, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, chances
are you’re using the OpenBSD-developed OpenSSH for secure shell
access to remote machines. If so many are using this software, why
are so few paying for it? Official responses (and non-responses)
from Sun Microsystems, IBM, Novell, and Red Hat are below, but if
you’re one of the freeloaders who hasn’t contributed to OpenBSD or
OpenSSH, what’s your excuse…?”