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I think you're over-thinking it. I imagine this was done solely in response to heartbleed itself, not OpenBSD's fork. It's a good charter, I'm happy it's being done.

Yes, they've obviously been working on this announcement for a few weeks. You can't get all those big players on board in the time since libressl was announced.

> I somehow can't imagine an organization named "Linux Foundation" to give money to OpenBSD and other non-Linux related open source projects.

Why not ? I could imagine them giving money to OpenSSH developers at least, seeing how it is part of the core infrastructure.

Also, would you have imagined Microsoft giving money to an organization named "Linux Foundation" ?

If the money was given to the Linux Foundation by Microsoft, I guess anything goes.