Shameful that so many billion dollar corporations rely on it in such a vital way, and only so little is being donated to it.
I think we need a score card for donating to open source projects, in the same way we have score cards for using green materials in devices, or using renewable energy for data centers. We should see periodic reports of how much money these companies donated to open source projects.
Indeed, and maybe we'll see some of the big companies hire and assign people to work on it now. I hope so. It'd be good to see the code audited too, though I'm not sure how you'd go about that with a project like OpenSSL. I suspect it'd have to involved funding a PhD or two...
I think we need a score card for donating to open source projects, in the same way we have score cards for using green materials in devices, or using renewable energy for data centers. We should see periodic reports of how much money these companies donated to open source projects.