Re: OpenBSD project support idea

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

Quoting Chris Hedemark (chris_(_at_)_yonderway_(_dot_)_com):
> On Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 08:33 AM, Alex de Joode wrote:
> 
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> Right.  So put up a separate entry into the OpenBSD store for 
> "Corporate Sales" and use the right terminology like "License 5 Pack" 
> and "Media Kit (includes one license)".  

Feel free to do it.  It's Free.  You can forward the money on....
It's close to fraud to the buyer, but whatever you want.

> Every time I go in front of the CTO and tell him I want to use XYZ 
> software that is open source, I have to go through this whole song and 
> dance about how it really is at least as good or better than that other 

Well, that's your problem.  I've been asked why I wasn't using some
$10k/machine monitoring package, instead I was using CMU-SNMP (pre-ucd)
and NOCOL.  My answer was straighforward:
   It runs on all our platforms as works better.
Q: How much will it cost us.
   Nada.  Free, cross platform and it doesn't suck.  Three things
   the "company approved" one doesn't have.

> CTO's license auditor 
> needs to have BSD license explained to them 5 times before they start 

Gee, I said: Here's the license, it's free, go away I have work to do.
(I got a reputation for being cranky.  Good, but cranky.  Strive for that).

> It would be much easier for me to go 
> in and say "here is what it costs per server" and then hand the 

Then you would be lying and misleading them.

I'd rather have shirts with a packing slip that said "install media" :)

> If Red Hat can get away with pricing Linux at $1,200 to corporate 
> entities for something that is GPL'd, surely OpenBSD can get away with 

but they don't.  They "get away with" providing support and patches
and a certainty for the buyer that they won't have to upgrade to
last Tuesday's Linux every three months.

> a $50 license fee for corporate users (even though we all know it's 
> strictly voluntary, and will appear on the OpenBSD.org side as a 
> donation but on the corporate side as part of the standard costs of 
> doing business).

So you want to disguise OpenBSD as another Rank and File bit of
software.  How ironic.  No food pellet for you.

> --
> "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned 
> my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him 
> the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization 
> should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless 
> brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all 
> this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to 
> shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that 
> killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
> -Albert Einstein