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Interesting times ahead.....maybe.
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The Microsoft Halloween documents leak were leaked in 2007. I hope this is not another example of Embraced, Extend, Extinguish.
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OpenSSH has a well deserved reputation in the ssh world. It will, finally, be Microsoft as just one of the players contributing to OpenSSH, not the other way around. Last edited by ibara; 9th July 2015 at 10:52 PM. |
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@moderators I would strongly suggest this thread to be locked for future posts and possible removed. This thread adds no value to this forum. Last edited by Oko; 9th July 2015 at 11:16 PM. |
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I am not interested in spreading FUD, although I will note that the strategy was employed by Microsoft.
The OpenSSH code does rely on some standards and contains some elegant encryption algorithms. Hopefully standards will remain open and code will be contributed back from Microsofts adoption of OpenSSH. |
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I am sure that any code supplied will be thoroughly checked & only used if it enhances the security.
Perhaps MS, under new management, are just acknowledging publicly that they are using some open source software in their products.
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It would be nice if Oracle would have a reciprocal donation to the OpenBSD Foundation given their possible use of pf as a replacement of ipf in Solaris.
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Monetary contributions to the Foundation do not influence Project direction, per the Foundation's charter. Nor do direct donations to the Project, per stated policy.
Software contributions -- whether by a Project developer, OpenBSD user, or a third party -- require the approval of at least two Project developers to be committed per policy, and are subject to both Project oversight and public review. Those three words in red are important. Public code commitments are what makes OpenBSD open. No NDAs for trade-secret documentation or software, no pre-compiled vendor-supplied modules, no hidden or proprietary components. --- Hardware contributions may influence support of that particular hardware, of course. Last edited by jggimi; 10th July 2015 at 02:06 PM. Reason: typo |
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Does this mean that OpenBSD is going to support Secure Boot? |
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I expect the engineering effort that has been announced will be of benefit to Microsoft's major customers: large enterprises and cloud service providers, whose systems administrators will be able to more effectively and securely manage remote Windows servers with tools that utilize SSH, and perhaps these can be devops tools that heterogeneously manage Unix-like systems. Last edited by jggimi; 11th July 2015 at 01:22 PM. Reason: mention devops |
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The overreaction to the donation in various communities strikes me as a bit... outdated? shep's post is misleading, as someone on Slashdot (!!!) noted, the Halloween documents were written 17 years ago, and the software development landscape has changed. Donations from Facebook and Google haven't attracted nearly as much paranoia. Both of these companies are major purveyors of proprietary software (even if it is delivered through the web). What makes Microsoft so special that makes people think the donation came with strings attached? Diffs for the purpose of reducing diffs with Android's libc have already made it into the tree - why has this not attracted the ire of conspiracy theorists to the same degree? I think the commit in question is of no consequence, but it seems like the commit shows Android effecting OpenBSD in a way which provides no benefit to OpenBSD's users (excluding Google), which is what these people are worried about, right? |
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I think it's good that they decided to donate - which is more than a lot of the other big so called "FOSS" projects and corporations have managed to do over the last several years... |
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