Re: Donations after new releases.

["Paul Galbraith" <paul@arda.homeunix.org>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent R. Spillner" <kent@zerosphere.org>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Donations after new releases.


> OpenBSD is now fully dependent on user donations (again).  Thus, the
> only fundraising goal is: financially enable the project to continue.
> What's so difficult to understand about this?  Why do people think
> setting monthly fundraising goals would make a difference?  Who would
> actually be motivated to donate just because you show them a graph
> showing what the goal is and how close we are to that goal?  Who would
> actually be motivated to donate more than they do already for the same
> reason?
>
> What's that you say?  "No one?"

Fantastic.  I see that you're a marketing expert.