Two points:

1. Please don't post private email. (Apologies if you obtained his
   permission to post).

2. Who really cares? I'd much rather see contibutions from companies who
   ship OpenSSH in their products and list "SSH support" as a feature on
   their glossy brochures than shaking down other free software developers.

-d

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Kernel Monkey wrote:

> I recently wrote Linus Torvalds asking why I don't see his name listed
> on the OpenBSD donations page (http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html),
> since I figured he uses OpenSSH.
> 
> This was the reply I got back:
> 
> > From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> > I suspect that OpenSSH would get more funding if it was directed directly
> > to OpenSSH, and not OpenBSD, which almost nobody is interested in.
> > 
> > As it is, how much of any money actually goes to OpenSSH development,
> > rather than everything else?
> > 
> >                        Linus
> 
> 
> I thought the reply was funny.

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