The OpenSSL code library on which so many companies rely for their Web security only has one dude working on the project full-time.
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Steve Marquess, president of the OpenSSL Software Foundation, a separate entity that solicits funding for the team that manages the code, said its 2013 budget was less than $1 million.
That’s despite the fact that up to two-thirds of the Web relies on it.
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“Large portions of the software infrastructure of the Internet are built and maintained by volunteers, who get little reward when their code works well but are blamed, and sometimes savagely derided, when it fails,” writes Foster in the New Yorker.
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[!!! ->] Anyone who gave OpenSSL $20,000 or more got its logo on their website according to their donation page. There are no logos on their website. This week, its most famous week ever, the organization has received a paltry $841.70 in donations.
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Steve Marquess, president of the OpenSSL Software Foundation, a separate entity that solicits funding for the team that manages the code, said its 2013 budget was less than $1 million.
That’s despite the fact that up to two-thirds of the Web relies on it.
[...]
“Large portions of the software infrastructure of the Internet are built and maintained by volunteers, who get little reward when their code works well but are blamed, and sometimes savagely derided, when it fails,” writes Foster in the New Yorker.
[...]
[!!! ->] Anyone who gave OpenSSL $20,000 or more got its logo on their website according to their donation page. There are no logos on their website. This week, its most famous week ever, the organization has received a paltry $841.70 in donations.