hmm, on Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:07:49AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze said that > Then again, while popularity certainly increases the risk of losing > one's mind, which means caution is permanently needed, there is > precendent indicating that it might be possible to stay true to > one's goals even when successful, even though most who are ultimately > fail. For example, the OpenSSH team hasn't sold out yet.
good point. however sending backdoory patches to the openssh project would not fly as it is being run by a competent, focused and uncompromising team. compare that to the openssl project... and while it would be nice to get access to the sysadmins (openssh), compromising the secure channels of the masses is much more valuable (openssl) -f -- programmers don't repeat themselves, they loop.
