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I'm not tired of it at all. Programming ain't free, and if anyone could use some funding, it's them.

I mean, it's not like Apple's going out of their way to make Aqua work on non-OSX unixen, or systemd's going out of its way to work on non-Linux unixen. Just like how those rely on features of their host platforms, LibreSSL currently relies heavily on OpenBSD-specific security features in the kernel and userland, and it'll take quite a bit more effort to port that to other platforms in a secure and correct way.

Now granted, I'm an OpenBSD user, so my opinion on this is biased. However, it's the same opinion that many Linux-specific or BSD-specific or OSX-specific or Solaris-specific or Windows-specific or VMS-specific or MULTICS-specific or what-have-you-specific projects seem to already have: focus on your primary target(s), then help with porting efforts to secondary targets when it works well on the primaries.




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