They did, but they also were frustrated beyond sanity at what OpenSSL was doing like adding a wrapper around malloc & free and that was new code not old legacy

They did, but they also were frustrated beyond sanity at what OpenSSL was doing like adding a wrapper around malloc & free and that was new code not old legacy cruft that can be excused. It also taught us all an important lesson in rage commits when Theo screwed up one of them :-P