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		_cipher_ on Jan 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the fundi... And if you and many more were interested in 'why' there are some strange ports, you'd get your answer. Search and you might be surprised. It's easy to just say "hur, they be stupid to port on vax/macppc/sparc/whatever". Do your homework.

markmark on Jan 18, 2014 [–]

All of the explanations I've seen are related to encouraging OpenBSD developers and surfacing bugs in OpenBSD, how does that help the typical x86 OpenSSH user? "We want $20k to help maintain this other thing we do that you have no interest in."

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