The biggest technology companies have joined forces, creating an initiative that will try to prevent the emergence of a new security gap, as was the recent heartbleed.
More specifically, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Qualcomm, Rockspace and VMware created the "Core Infrastructure Initiative", an initiative that will undertake the financing and support of creators software open source.
The announcement of the initiative was made by the non-profit Linux Foundation, which also undertook its organization. The amount that each of the participants will contribute was not announced, however in a Reuters post it sets the amount that each company will allocate to $ 300.000.
Post money collected will support the development of secure open source software, which is a key component of the Internet and technological development.
As Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, says, many of the creators of such applications do not have the necessary funding to support their work.
It is worth noting that Heartbleed was one of the biggest security holes in the history of the Internet. The problem was created by a line of code in OpenSSL Open Architecture software, which is based on a percentage of 66% of web servers for data encryption.
The security flaw in OpenSSL essentially meant that the cryptographic keys, which ensure that all users' "secret" codes and passwords are transmitted securely, could be intercepted by an web server, without being noticed. The Heartbleed bug existed in OpenSSL for more than two years before it was noticed and publicly announced.
