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If the price of OpenSSH is keeping all of OpenBSD running, I'll send OpenBSD some money. I've never used OpenBSD except to tinker with it, and likely never wil
by SwellJoe 13y ago
If the price of OpenSSH is keeping all of OpenBSD running, I'll send OpenBSD some money.
I've never used OpenBSD except to tinker with it, and likely never will. But, I use OpenSSH hundreds of times a day (both in automated jobs and in the terminal). It is utterly necessary to me; likely necessary for all of us, really. So, while a company would have shed the extra weight and focused on its core product that users love years ago, OpenBSD keeps OpenSSH as a side effect. I guess I'm OK with that.
Maybe it's even necessary for OpenSSH developers to understand systems level programming at a level only OS developers can grasp, and maybe OpenSSH wouldn't be the absolute beast it is today without that kind of influence and widespread knowledge found in the OpenBSD team. I dunno. Whatever it is, I support the people and the things they do for me in OpenSSH even if I don't care much about OpenBSD.
- eruditely 13y agoValue of openssh cannot be understated. it is one of the most important pieces of software ever. Even if Theo's attitudes are distasteful.