On 04/19/11 16:10, Miod Vallat wrote: > So if you want to contribute but don't know what to get, get a CD set > (or several!). Noone will mind if you frame them and hang them on your > wall; it's the thought which counts. > > Miod
I'm gonna hate myself for this, but if it sends money to the project, it's worth it... I hereby declare OpenBSD CD sets to be The Next Beanie Baby/Webkins/iProduct thing. It's new, its trendy, and in six months, you need a new one. (that's how this works, right? Someone, somewhere declares that some toy or thing is the Must Have for the season, and all the world lines up to buy it? Gotta be something like that, let's see if I can make it work...) You HAVE to have one. Your friends with them will thumb their noses at you if you don't have one. Once you have one, you will be able to (and be expected to) look down on your poor, unfortunate pathetic excuse for friends that DON'T have one of their own. Heck, you won't even admit knowing them in polite company. Your kids will be laughed at by their peers who's parents have bought them an OpenBSD CD set, YOU will be responsible for the psychological trauma they experience for not having THE Latest Release on CD. Forcing your kids to share a CD set is not an option; remember, THEY will chose your nursing home. It's one per kid. And one for your spouse, too. You WILL line up to put your order in the moment Theo activates pre-orders in the future, including taking off work the day before it is rumored that Theo will activate pre-orders, so you can spend the day hitting "Reload" on your browser [note to self: talk to Theo about "leaking" pre-order day], and you will run as fast as you can to buy copies now. You WILL buy this release because it is better than the past releases. You will buy the next release because it is better than this release. You will NOT wait for the next release, you will buy this one. Remember, there are limited quantities of CDs available at any one instant, look at what that 2.4 CD is going for now. I know *I* wish I had bought one a while back. A friend of mine has an OpenBSD 2.0 CD set he bought when it first came out. He's...you know, SOOOOO COOOOOOL! (Hi, C.L.! :) He is CLEARLY better than me, because I didn't buy OpenBSD CDs until 2.6. Don't wait until the 4.9 disks are gone forever (or until Theo decides to make another run), get yours now! Slightly more seriously... Unlike the Beanie Babies and Webkins and iProducts, this actually matters to the world. You all know what it means to have a team producing an entire OS where the goal is nothing short of perfection, not "a little better than Windows", where "all software has bugs" is something to change, not a statement of resignation and justification for status quo. Even if you don't use OpenBSD for everything, you realize that OpenBSD has helped raise the bar. So, how much money did you waste on Beanie Babies? Webkins? How much time did you or someone you know spend waiting in line for the latest one that just came out? (multiply by your hourly wage). Send it in as a donation with your CD purchase, and make the world a better place, not just with more damned stuffed toys. Nick.
