Hit by Heartbleed, tech giants pledge donations to OpenSSL

NEW DELHI: Big technology companies, including Google and Facebook, have reportedly pledged to donate at least $100,000 a year for three years to OpenSSL Foundation so that the group could hire more full-time developers to work on the software. OpenSSL powers almost 75% of the internet.

Currently, OpenSSL has just one full-time developer even though the software is used by companies that earn billions of dollars in revenue every quarter. The OpenSSL Foundation doesn't charge any money for its software and mostly relies on small donations.

Steve Marquess, the president of OpenSSL Foundation last week said in a blog post that the group receives around $2000 in donations every year. He also said that after the Heartbleed bug was found and the group received some publicity, it got around $9000 in two weeks. "Most were for $5 or $10 and, judging from the email addresses and names, were from all around the world," he wrote.

According to a report by ArsTechnica, the big technology companies will now work with Linux Foundation for "a three-year initiative with at least $3.9 million to help under-funded open source projects—with OpenSSL coming first".

Linux Foundation later said that the initiative was "inspired by the Heartbleed OpenSSL crisis".

"The Initiative's funds will be administered by the Linux Foundation and a steering group comprised of backers of the project as well as key open source developers and other industry stakeholders," Linux Foundation noted on its website.

ArsTechnica wrote the "details are still to be worked out between the initiative members and OpenSSL, but one likely outcome is having enough money to let more developers work on the project full time".

Last week Marquess had appealed for help.

"There should be at least a half dozen full time OpenSSL team members, not just one, able to concentrate on the care and feeding of OpenSSL without having to hustle commercial work. If you're a corporate or government decision maker in a position to do something about it, give it some thought. Please. I'm getting old and weary and I'd like to retire someday," he wrote on his blog.

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