The interesting thing about OpenSSL is that it's used to secure a huge percentage of the world's ecommerce sites, including some of the biggest powerhouses of the New Economy, yet all 400,000-plus lines of code are maintained by only 4 open source programmers who have a total budget of only a few thousand dollars a year.
One of those four people recently said something to the effect of "hey all you businesses spending millions to fix the problems caused by this flaw--since OpenSSL is vital to your business, how come you don't donate any money to maintaining it?"
