This comes off as a few companies trying to throw money at a rotten crypto lib, when only leadership like Theo's way (minimalism, dropping features) would have a prayer of rescuing it. So giving OpenSSL more money doesn't make sense, it's like rewarding failure because they've shown an inability to produce good code or maintain it well... More money won't help that, likely the opposite. Instead, TLS WG needs to get their act together and reduce their addiction to feature creep, release a reference library and comprehensive test suite. Then OpenSSL might have a chance after picking up a compass and a map and get back to some semblance of being a decent crypto lib, but more money is unlikely to solve this issue.