It isn't a good idea. jdixon tried, got exactly 0 responses. Really the horse is dead. Very very very dead.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 07:54:52PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > Theo, > > Please don't take this offensively as it touches a sensitive area. > > Benny's proposal is good! License the CD's as 10, 50, 100 user license > set, exactly like you do for the old CDs which are $500+. This way > OpenBSD taps into the commercial market. Commercial users buy the > commercial CDs. > > Last time around somebody asked for packages on DVD. OpenBSD gets > pre-orders a month in advance and if so many people want > i386/amd64/etc package DVDs, just give it to them! MacOS + Linux + > OpenSolaris has done some work on fat binaries, and I am sure with the > expertise around here it can be done within some reasonable time. What > a kick-ass project that would be! Anyway, wouldn't it be cool to > reduce the bandwidth and hard drive usage for mirrors and simplify > life for everybody? > > A survey is free from so many websites. We get spammed all the time, > participate in this and that, why not host a survey right now > someplace on openbsd.org or one of the devs websites and see how much > interest is really there. > > OpenBSD got to be able to have more income streams. > > Keep up the good fight! > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Benny Lofgren <bl-li...@lofgren.biz> wrote: > > On 2011-04-19 16.27, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> Income: > >> The direct income from sales (Computer Shop (primarily) + > distributors) > >> -> Keeps the electrons flowing > >> -> Keeps me from taking that cushy Microsoft job > >> > >> Donations: > >> The OpenBSD Foundation > >> -> Funds the big hackathons and some smaller ones > >> -> Funds the network links > >> The paypal and european accounts > >> -> Funds the remaining small hackathons > >> -> Buys strange new pieces of hardware which are not donated > > > > I'm sure this has been brought up before, but is there a way to buy > > "licenses" without actually getting the CD:s? > > > > The reason I ask is that however much I like to have the CD sets in my > > bookshelf, I don't need ten or twenty of them... :-) But I still would like > > for my company to pay a fair fee for each system we run OpenBSD on. > > > > What complicates things for us is that the concept of donations isn't very > > practical here in Sweden, as a donation isn't regarded as a tax deductible > > expense at all, neither for private individuals nor corporations. A pure > > donation will in practice be nearly twice as expensive as the price tag > > itself would imply. > > > > For us it would be awesome to have the opportunity to order a "multi-server > > CD", where I could specify for example a ten-system "license", which > > would get > > me one CD set for the price of ten, with a good receipt for a perfectly > > valid, > > deductible business expense. It would be an excellent deal in my book. :-) > > > > (In the meantime, I'll just order the usual CD set with a T-shirt or a > > mug or > > two and hope for a better way to spend more money later on. :-) ) > > > > > > Regards, > > /Benny > > > > -- > > internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must > > Benny Lvfgren / mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, > > / fax: +46 8 551 124 89 / not counted." > > / email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se
