Linux Foundation and major IT companies create a foundation to support critical open source software.

Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Fujitsu, NetApp, VMware Qualcomm and RackSpace became the co-founders and first participants of the Core Infrastructure Initiative , created under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, of Core Infrastructure Initiative , whose task is to support software development on which the normal depends functioning of the global information infrastructure. Creating such a foundation is a response to the discovery of the disastrous Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL, which has compromised the security of the entire Internet. The OpenSSL project will be the first to receive support from the foundation.







The fund has already collected the first 3.9 million dollars. The co-founders of the fund have promised to invest at least $ 100,000 a year in it over the next three years. Anyone can participate in the replenishment of the fund . The board of the fund, which will include representatives of the participating companies and the community of programmers, will determine which projects primarily need financial support.



Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin said that the developers of key global computer infrastructure projects will in fact receive a full-fledged salary from the fund in order to be able to focus 100% on their support and development. We can not allow a situation where technology developers, who literally hold the whole Internet, are forced to work on them in their spare time, and donations are more symbolic - for example, the OpenSSL project received an average of about $ 2,000 a year.

Zemlin named Mod_SSL , Open Crypto Audit and GPG among the projects that can receive funding from the foundation.

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