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That was something else that irked me in the article, where they decry the small $2,000 a year they receive in donations; but they don't address how much thei
by akira2501 10y ago
That was something else that irked me in the article, where they decry the small $2,000 a year they receive in donations; but they don't address how much their commercial support contracts[1] bring in. OpenSSL seems to be both an open source project and a cottage industry all wrapped in one.
[1] https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html
- vtlynch 10y agoThe first date that Archive.org has that page is August 2015, after heartbleed. Do you know for sure that they offered this service before heartbleed?
- LukeShu 10y agoYes. https://web.archive.org/web/20120805001248/http://www.openssl.org/support/funding/contract.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120805001248/http://www.openss... August 2015 is just when they did a website redesign, which caused some URLs to change.
- vtlynch 10y agoGood find. This is an excellent question. Knowing how much OpenSSL made through this is certainly important.