It certainly would not defeat the point to pay the OpenSSL engineers. Free and open software is about your freedom to modify and share software, not about taking no money.
Open source software still costs a lot of money to make, and people do pay for it. Typically, companies like RedHat, Facebook and Google (and plenty of others, like Apple, and even Mircosoft) hire engineers in to full-time positions to work on open-source projects. That's how most open-source projects are funded. It's how Webkit grew. It's how Linux is built.
OpenSSL needs funding, and the biggest companies that depend on it will probably provide more assistance in the aftermath of heartbleed I expect. OpenSSL is so crucial, and we've just found out how exposed it is.
Open source software still costs a lot of money to make, and people do pay for it. Typically, companies like RedHat, Facebook and Google (and plenty of others, like Apple, and even Mircosoft) hire engineers in to full-time positions to work on open-source projects. That's how most open-source projects are funded. It's how Webkit grew. It's how Linux is built.
OpenSSL needs funding, and the biggest companies that depend on it will probably provide more assistance in the aftermath of heartbleed I expect. OpenSSL is so crucial, and we've just found out how exposed it is.