[akira2501]

That was something else that irked me in the article, where they decry the small $2,000 a year they receive in donations; but they don't address how much their commercial support contracts[1] bring in. OpenSSL seems to be both an open source project and a cottage industry all wrapped in one.

[1] https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html

[vtlynch]

The first date that Archive.org has that page is August 2015, after heartbleed. Do you know for sure that they offered this service before heartbleed?

[LukeShu]

Yes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120805001248/http://www.openss...

August 2015 is just when they did a website redesign, which caused some URLs to change.

[vtlynch]

Good find. This is an excellent question. Knowing how much OpenSSL made through this is certainly important.