With the recient Interview with the CEO of UnitedLinux and the following discussion of giving back to the community you can see how important this is. How many systems use SSH? Every single one of mine. This is where a UL can really shine, but helping OpenSSH in the shape of work towards a patch. This helps provide security to the distos and gives back the community for people who run smiliar setups.

This really shouldn't stop with SSH though. Distros in general should be helping out large development projects like this.