Re: Donations after new releases.

[Greg Thomas <getbsd@sbcglobal.net>]

On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 15:05 US/Pacific, steve wrote:

> On Saturday 03 May 2003 14:58, Kent R. Spillner wrote:
>
>> Look: just buy a CD or two every 6 months.  Make a paypal
>> donation every once in a while if you can afford it.  Tell a
>> friend or coworker how great OpenBSD is, and loan them your CD so
>> they can play around with it themselves.  Buy OpenBSD t-shirts
>> and posters for others (or yourself) as gifts.
>
> These are all very good things to do. What I've heard here is that
> some are interested in contributing a bit more.

Yeah, so they should contribute more.  What's you're point?

>>
>> OpenBSD sells itself on it's technical merits.  If people read
>> the manpages and the FAQ, configuring and maintaining OpenBSD is
>> a cakewalk. What are you suggesting?  That the OpenBSD developers
>> stop hardening the system and adding support for new devices, and
>> instead temporarily concentrate all efforts on building a
>> graphical installation utility that can be launched from Windows?
>>  That instead of adding new features to pf, the pf people should
>> spend all their time building a graphical point-and-click
>> "insta-firewall kit?"
>>
>> -Kent
>
> Oh yes, that's a great constructive idea! Do you have anything but
> negativity and stops to contribute?
>
> Maybe you are 200% right in that nobody here will do squat. But
> things start with someone coming up with an idea. Corporations make
> donations rather than paying taxes which makes them look good too.
> This is an old known "cold fact", which if you get to speak to a big
> enough corporation they will acknowledge.

Yes, and if you've read ANY of Theo's messages on the subject you would 
know that this practice is entirely against his principles.

Like Kent said, stop trying to beat the horse deader.

Greg