The nonprofit Linux Foundation and more than a dozen prominent technology companies are to announce an initiative on Thursday to fund crucial open-source projects.
Chief among those projects will be OpenSSL, the Internet security method used by millions of web servers and Internet-connected devices. Researchers recently discovered a major flaw in OpenSSL that they called Heartbleed.
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