Tech Giants Back Initiative For Funding Crucial Open Source Projects

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multi-million dollar project aimed to fund open source projects critical for the global information infrastructure, and a dozen of big tech companies have joined it and will be providing the funds.

Since the discovery of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug some two weeks ago, the one positive thing brought forth by it is a better understanding of the limitations of open source software development.

The main problem is almost always insufficient funding, which consequently affects the developers' ability to give all their attention to one project, and the project managers' ability to pay for independent quality source code audits.