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Yeah, there's plenty of people here saying "hey, you use OpenSSH on x86, you should donate". But the the reason they need the donations is to pay the power bills for running things like Vax servers for OpenBSD development on ancient platforms? Not the most convincing argument.

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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.

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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