Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:30:27 -0600 From: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor Message-ID: <55A00F43.90908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <33650.128.135.70.2.1436549147.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <BLU437-SMTP2B8F14BE7B4D30D13EC96809F0@phx.gbl> <559FF775.7030204@mgm51.com> <33650.128.135.70.2.1436549147.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On 07/10/2015 11:25 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Fri, July 10, 2015 11:48 am, Mike wrote: >> On 7/10/2015 12:43 PM, Carmel NY wrote: >>> I wonder why they choose OpenBSD over FreeBSD? >>> >>> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150708134520&mode=expanded&count=27 >> >> >> Probably is related to: >> >> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150603090420 >> > With all my scepticism I would more consider that as an excuse, implying > the reason may be something like this: > > http://slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-To-Have-Backdoored-OpenBSDs-IPSEC-Stack > > (I didn't say exactly this, I said something like this...) So, I'm > actually quite happy they didn't choose FreeBSD ;-) > > Valeri A friend of mine commented about this to me: "They (i.e. the fed, via MS) also bought their way into Cyanogen. Not sure what their plans are here, but BSD or Apache licensed software is a good fit for the classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy /(of MS)//---Italics mine-JD// /// OpenBSD has been hurting for money so it is possible that MS feels that a small strategic cash infusion buys them assets and/or goodwill they can use against their bigger competitors: Linux, Google, etc. $25k-50k is a rounding error for MS (and even for BRCM). I've always wondered whether consumer hardware / embedded devices would start migrating over to BSD, since GPL compliance is such a hassle for many vendors. Obviously Android went this way several years ago."
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