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Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by ben_bai »

icebraining wrote: post #10
aMayn wrote: post #7

Perhaps they're simply grateful for OpenSSH and for all that it enables?

Or maybe they're just mistaken...? (I'm kidding) In celebration of this milestone, Smartisan will donate approximately 3 million RMB from sales of tickets of this year's and last year's launch events to OpenSSL Software Foundation and the OpenBSD Foundation, two Android open source service organizations. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/smartisan-technology...

Well, there is a lot of code from *BSD in Android, for example libc.

OpenBSD: https://github.com/android/platform_bionic/search?q=openbsd

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by buovjaga »

riobard wrote: post #12

Background: Smartisan is an Android phone maker in China. Smartisan fans pay for admission tickets to attend Smartisan's new product release events, and Smartisan donates the ticket sales to an open source project. So far they've donated to OpenSSL ($160k), OpenBSD (CA$280k), and OpenResty (pending approval). Edit: IIRC, Smartisan's first donation to OpenSSL happened right after HeartBleed.

They donated $320k in two batches to OpenSSL in 2014. Is the $160k you mention for this year? Do you have a source for the exact amount? The PR News wire bit does not mention the exact sums per org.

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by na85 »

riobard wrote: post #12

Background: Smartisan is an Android phone maker in China. Smartisan fans pay for admission tickets to attend Smartisan's new product release events, and Smartisan donates the ticket sales to an open source project. So far they've donated to OpenSSL ($160k), OpenBSD (CA$280k), and OpenResty (pending approval). Edit: IIRC, Smartisan's first donation to OpenSSL happened right after HeartBleed.

Why would they donate to openssl in USD but openbsd in CAD? Aren't they both Canadian projects?

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by the_trapper »

pawadu wrote: post #19
eb0la wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly not; but I would buy an OpenBSD phone... if anyone wants to make it, please call me!

Sign me up too! But to be honest, the problem with Android is not the Linux kernel but the fact that most phones were never designed to be continuously updated.

Actually Linux is a very poor choice when a product depends on out of tree binary blobs to operate. The lack of stable driver ABIs and APIs are a real problem for long term maintenance. I'm really surprised that the BSDs aren't a much bigger player in the embedded space.

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by protomyth »

na85 wrote: post #33
riobard wrote: post #12

Background: Smartisan is an Android phone maker in China. Smartisan fans pay for admission tickets to attend Smartisan's new product release events, and Smartisan donates the ticket sales to an open source project. So far they've donated to OpenSSL ($160k), OpenBSD (CA$280k), and OpenResty (pending approval). Edit: IIRC, Smartisan's first donation to OpenSSL happened right after HeartBleed.

Why would they donate to openssl in USD but openbsd in CAD? Aren't they both Canadian projects?

OpenSSL is a corp out of Maryland. OpenSSH is a OpenBSD project.

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by protomyth »

the_trapper wrote: post #34
pawadu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sign me up too! But to be honest, the problem with Android is not the Linux kernel but the fact that most phones were never designed to be continuously updated.

Actually Linux is a very poor choice when a product depends on out of tree binary blobs to operate. The lack of stable driver ABIs and APIs are a real problem for long term maintenance. I'm really surprised that the BSDs aren't a much bigger player in the embedded space.

Wasn't the original Danger developed phones based on NetBSD?

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by behnamoh »

riobard wrote: post #12

Background: Smartisan is an Android phone maker in China. Smartisan fans pay for admission tickets to attend Smartisan's new product release events, and Smartisan donates the ticket sales to an open source project. So far they've donated to OpenSSL ($160k), OpenBSD (CA$280k), and OpenResty (pending approval). Edit: IIRC, Smartisan's first donation to OpenSSL happened right after HeartBleed.

So we should expect Chinese backdoors in OpenBSD too?

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by brynet »

dorianm wrote: post #14

So Google donated to OpenBSD from 2012 to 2015 but not in 2016 (or less than $5000), interesting. They seem to be their only long term recurrent donor. Edit: Actually they are just part of the Core Infrastructure Initiative now https://www.coreinfrastructure.org

They still have time, as do anyone else.. 2016 isn't over. :-)

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by AsyncAwait »

behnamoh wrote: post #38
riobard wrote: post #12

Background: Smartisan is an Android phone maker in China. Smartisan fans pay for admission tickets to attend Smartisan's new product release events, and Smartisan donates the ticket sales to an open source project. So far they've donated to OpenSSL ($160k), OpenBSD (CA$280k), and OpenResty (pending approval). Edit: IIRC, Smartisan's first donation to OpenSSL happened right after HeartBleed.

So we should expect Chinese backdoors in OpenBSD too?

I really do hope this is sarcasm, hard to detect over text.
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