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Posted on 03/21/2006 2:50:02 PM PST by TChris
What is happening is that the CD purchase FTP ratio is out of control. People pretty much stopped purchasing CDs in quantities they used to and use the FTP mirrors instead. This lack of sales is what is causing the project to turn a small loss for the 2nd year in a row.
To fulfill most development goals OpenBSD should be generating about $100K USD. With that amount of money the project can finance 1 large and 4 small hackathons per year. Pay the bills and a part-time developer to mind the shop when Theo isn't around. In an ideal world we would have a sponsor per hackathon and the CD sales would be paying for other expenses.
Inquiries about sponsoring hackathons and other fund raising questions can be sent to marco@openbsd.org. Serious/interesting offers will be evaluated by me and discussed with Theo. The idea is to keep him busy with technical stuff and as little as possible with fund-raising activities. Unfortunately sending email to the lists is counter-productive and worse will generate flames. Please restrain yourself and simply contact me off list.
What I want to point out what a lot of people don't seem to realize is that OpenSSH development is paid from the same pool of money as OpenBSD. OpenSSH is in use by millions around the world however the revenue stream just simply isn't there. This is where other projects could help. Without naming entities or projects by name there are others out there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going.
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Bad broadband! Bad! See what you did to that questionable business model!!? You should know better.
Why buy the cow...
I haven't bought an OpenBSD installation CD in a while - think I will. Great product, and worth supporting financially.
If we just had an adress where to send the cash.
A similar situation has popped up for the Nessus and Snort user communities.
Theo is an idiot. He had a DARPA grant until he went off in the newspaper about how the war in Iraq was wrong and he was offended by US military. So they cancelled it for him so he wouldn't have to be offended any more.
That grant used to pay for his salary and a couple of other peoples too.
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And the founder/head of the project bashing the Iraq War.
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I couldn't resist.
LOL! Better hurry.
Im not a huge BSD user but I think I will pop over and pick one up I have used it in the past and have some old hardware I might want to try out.
I use OpenBSD and buy the CDs to support it. The main problem with it is Theo de Raadt: he's a festering prick, even if he is a good programmer. He was kicked off of the previous BSD team he help found because he doesn't play well with others. I watched him in action on the user listserv and was appalled. He's a capital "A" butthole.
I always felt that if you use an Open Source product for production use then you should pony up some cash.
Yet another nail in BSD's coffin. Fact - BSD is dying.
Funny. Folks have been saying that for years.
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