Free SSL cert from Godaddy for open source projects

[Steve Bibayoff]

Hello,

On 5/4/06, Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> wrote:
> Mildly off-topic, but I ran over this today looking through godaddy
> pricing - they offer a free 1 year Turbo SSL certificate for open
> source projects, not something I would have expected to see from a
> company like godaddy, especially with web-pages ending in .asp :)
>
> They claim
>
> "Go Daddy is committed to the open source community. We want your site
> and data to be secure - and we're willing to foot the cost to make them
> just that."
>
> https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp?se=%2B&ci=5988
>
> Specifies only projects with an OSI-approved license.
>
> Nice surprise :)

Funny as hell, considering they have just done a large domain parking
switch from Linux to Windows:
http://lwn.net/Articles/178908/
And interesting conspiracy reading if you follow AnswerGuy comments to:
http://lwn.net/Articles/181723/


Steve