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Donors, takers size up free open source certificate support (NewsForge)
NewsForge looks
at the GoDaddy.com offer of free SSL certificates to open source
projects. "We thought it might be interesting to see what kind of
response GoDaddy got, what it is doing to filter out the open source noise
from the truly open source projects, and what it really takes to cash in on
open source authenticity to score a free Turbo SSL Certificate from the
Arizona company. Conversely, what must open source projects do to take
advantage of this kind of free support -- whether it be SSL certs, hosting,
or other services that can put more time and energy back on the code --
without compromising any control?"
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GoDaddy pretend to give away what they exchange. Posted Mar 4, 2005 23:18 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] "GoDaddy, for example, wanted to put up a logo that was "more like an ad" on the binarycloud Web site, Black said. But GoDaddy proved flexible, because it agreed to scale back the logo to an actual logo."
But it still too much. If you give something you can made no demand, or else it is just a transaction. Given the cost of manufacturing a cert and the cost of web advertisement, this is not even a good deal for binarycloud.
Fortunately, the FLOSS way to key management is the web of trust, not relying on obscure companies to make certs without any real checking and pretending to give them when they actually swap then with advertising.
GoDaddy pretend to give away what they exchange. Posted Mar 5, 2005 21:49 UTC (Sat) by jeroen (subscriber, #12372) [Link] "Fortunately, the FLOSS way to key management is the web of trust"
Certainly, and CAcert created the system to do that for certificates. Just look at http://www.cacert.org, it's really nice.
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