20'000?
Which are missing??
That's like "cents" to fatcats.
A mysterious Bitcoin-powered white knight is reported to have come to the rescue of the struggling OpenBSD Foundation. Described as a Romanian billionaire, an individual named Mircea Popescu has offered to bail out the OpenBSD Foundation. The Foundation responsible for maintaining OpenBSD is $20,000 in the red over an …
Considering how much *BSD is important to Apple, I am surprised they can't find 20k hidden in their pocket lint.
Yes, I know Apple don't use OpenBSD directly, but the "ecosystem" of *BSD developers out there does help to provide them with a pool of talent to draw on.
The death of OpenBSD would hurt Apple far more than 20k.
Hey Apple-bashing commentards .... how about doing your homework !
The death of OpenBSD would not affect apple at all because, repeat after me ....
OS X is NOT based on OpenBSD.
OS X is NOT based on OpenBSD.
OS X is NOT based on OpenBSD.
OS X is NOT based on OpenBSD.
OS X is NOT based on OpenBSD.
Got it ?
Go read up on Nextstep, the core of OS X
"OpenBSD is important because it’s widely used in firewalls, other edge servers, email, DNS and intrusion detection servers for its security."
Considering only the list above, there's a lot of commercial manufactures/suppliers building and selling that kit which, thanks a decent and very secure free OS helps them provide a potentially decent product with a lot less outlay than it might otherwise cost them.
I'd have thought at least some of them would be offering decent sized donations as a matter of course so as to secure the continuing development of a major component of their products.