On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 09:52:18AM +0000, Tim Jones wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Saturday, October 6, 2018 9:21 AM, Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-open...@tor.at>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > not everyone is reading want.html every day, therefore I wanted to hint
> > at: https://www.openbsd.org/want.html
> >
> > stsp@wifi is asking for gear and we should deliver :-)
> >
> > "Ubiquity Unifi Ufo / Unifi AP Pro are needed for wifi driver debugging
> > in Berlin, Germany. Contact s...@openbsd.org"
> >
> > I cannot find "Unifi Ufo", but "Unifi AP Pro" is not a cheapo Access
> > Point, around EUR 160,-- here.
> >
> > Marcus
>
>
> Unifi not a cheapo access point ? That's a first for me! Unifi APs are
> probably the cheapest half-decent APs on the market, especially if you
> compare them to the typical cost of a brand name "enterprise" AP.
>
> As someone who has recently donated, surely this is the very sort of thing
> the OpenBSD Foundation should be funding ? I didn't just give money to pay
> for electricity bills caused by people insisting on maintaining racks of
> vintage room-heaters.
Sorry, donating to the foundation does not give you the right to
bitch. The directors spend your money as they see fit within the
goals of the foundation. That's the nature of a donation: it comes with
no strings attached for the party receiving.
Often it is more effective to ask for hw on want.html (as people tend to have
stuff lying around) than to buy new stuff all the time.
-Otto
