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Google Donates $10,000

Contributed by jolan on from the no-adwords-required dept.

In case you missed it, Google has joined the $10,000 donation club (along side GoDaddy.com and the Mozilla Foundation). It's totally cool to have yet another well known company chip in to help sponsor OpenBSD and OpenSSH development. dlg@ jokingly stated that perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (62.252.32.11) on

    Is there any comment from Google on this anywhere?

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (24.84.108.32) on

      > Is there any comment from Google on this anywhere?

      I see no indication from Google, no press release on their site. Only a comment from Theo that the donations page has been updated, and that Google is on it. No amount stated, nothing. Probably some person with an @google.com email address gave money and after someone recognized the domain they stuck Google up as a donor.

      Can anyone provide corroboration on this one? Bueller?

  2. By Anonymous Coward (81.57.42.108) on

    perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)

    There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?

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    1. By Tim (145.99.137.25) on

      > perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)
      >
      > There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?

      Niels Provos

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      1. By henkjan (193.172.171.138) on

        > > perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)
        > >
        > > There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?
        >
        > Niels Provos

        afaik Niels Provos is no longer OpenBSD developer.
        Marius Eriksen is an OpenBSD developer and works at google.

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        1. By Anonymous Coward (24.34.57.27) on

          > perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)
          >
          > There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?
          >
          > Niels Provos
          >
          > afaik Niels Provos is no longer OpenBSD developer.

          Hence the "poaching."

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (64.80.197.181) on

            > > perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)
            > >
            > > There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?
            > >
            > > Niels Provos
            > >
            > > afaik Niels Provos is no longer OpenBSD developer.
            >
            > Hence the "poaching."

            I think he left the OpenBSD project before joining Google.

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            1. By Flynn (24.65.60.132) on

              > > > perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)
              > > >
              > > > There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?
              > > >
              > > > Niels Provos
              > > >
              > > > afaik Niels Provos is no longer OpenBSD developer.
              > >
              > > Hence the "poaching."
              >
              > I think he left the OpenBSD project before joining Google.

              According to Neils website (which may or may not be very to up to date) he still contributes to OpenSSH which might explain the Google contribution since Neils and Marius are now working there...

              Check


              http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos



        2. By Anonymous Coward (140.99.30.238) on

          > perhaps they're just compensating OpenBSD for poaching developers ;)
          >
          > There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?
          >
          > Niels Provos
          >
          > afaik Niels Provos is no longer OpenBSD developer. Marius Eriksen is an OpenBSD developer and works at google.

          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=114663359413500&w=2

    2. By anonymous pedro (139.82.36.138) on

      > There's OpenBSD developers working at Google now ?

      not sure, but at some point of the day, for sure

  3. By Anonymous Coward (70.48.229.109) on

    10,000 to OpenBSD is 10,000 they could have spent co-opting some free software project for revenue. Oh wait... fuck.

  4. By Anonymous Coward (156.34.208.173) on

    It is absolutely wonderful that GoDaddy, Mozilla, Google, and a few others have made large donations. But I have to say, I have a nagging feeling that such donations may very well be *one time only* donations. While there potentionally many thousands of busnesses and corporations that use OpenSSH or OpenBSD, a number of under 10 that are willing to make such a donation has the sorry smell of truth to it in my largely cynical world view. I'll avoid making any stupid suggestions this time, but I'll going to go out on a limb and say the funding crisis remains ... there is just a breathing room (perhaps a release cycle?) to come up with a funding strategy for the long term, adjust costs and expections, or both.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (66.166.183.177) on

      > It is absolutely wonderful that GoDaddy, Mozilla, Google, and a few others have made large donations. But I have to say, I have a nagging feeling that such donations may very well be *one time only* donations.

      True. A $10k donation is nothing to scoff at but a recurring (paypal) donation of $10k/year would be excellent.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (72.66.68.60) on

        > True. A $10k donation is nothing to scoff at but a recurring (paypal) donation of $10k/year would be excellent.

        $10k via paypal? Good luck.

    2. By Anonymous Coward (209.183.142.171) on

      > It is absolutely wonderful that GoDaddy, Mozilla, Google, and a few others have made large donations. But I have to say, I have a nagging feeling that such donations may very well be *one time only* donations.

      Even as one time offerings, do these donations have no benefit as example setters? I know nobody's going to give away 10k because it becomes 'cool' but I'd be inclined to think there is some influence.

      If mozilla had only given 5k, what would the sums from godaddy and google have been? (I don't know if it'd have been different, I'm just wondering).

    3. By Anonymous Coward (156.34.208.173) on

      I can't believe I used 'preview', re-read my message (or so I thought), and still overlooked a small army of spelling and grammar mistakes. At this point my whole IP range should probably be pre-emptively banned for patch submission. =)

  5. By GWT (68.104.1.58) on

    now if they'd just open source their google web toolkit hosted browser so i could run it somewhere other than linux or windows.

  6. By Joe Price (63.87.178.215) on

    Another member of the 10K club!

  7. By Clay Dowling (12.37.120.99) clay@lazarusid.com on http://www.ceamus.com

    I'm inclined to agree with the previous poster who suggested that these donations were one-time offers that shouldn't be counted on again. Has any thought been given to establishing some variety of trust which invests this money in the interest of stablizing OpenBSD's funding?

    I know people that set up such arrangements, but unfortunately they're in the US, not Canada where OpenBSD is based. But last time I was in Toronto I didn't notice a shortage of investment houses that could handle the task.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (143.166.255.17) on

      AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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      1. By Clay Dowling (12.37.120.99) clay@lazarusid.com on http://www.ceamus.com

        > AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

        ???

        Any particular reason? Or just felt the need for a good yell?

  8. By Nicolai (12.216.45.89) on http://www.public.iastate.edu/~free-unix/OpenBSD

    This goes to show that a number of other companies COULD donate money to the OpenBSD project. They are not hopelessly bogged down by bureaucracy as many suggest -- they just choose NOT to donate.

    Perhaps this should be taken into consideration on websites like Vendor Watch.

    http://www.vendorwatch.org

  9. By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on

    I think having Mozilla and Google contribute has really given the whole donation thing a lot of credibility. Hope to see some other big names contributing in the future.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (24.72.118.207) on

      > I think having Mozilla and Google contribute has really given the whole donation thing a lot of credibility. Hope to see some other big names contributing in the future.

      Yeah, like Sun! ;)

  10. By cnst (217.12.147.5) on

    I've noticed that Vonage is also in the list. Did they contribute less than 10'000 dollars?

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