On 10/5/06, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The structure of the OpenBSD project suggests that this project > might be able to resist better than others. It is no company. > It is no charity. It is not so small that it needs to grasp at > every straw to survive. It is not so large that any of the big > players will put any real effort into trying to corrupt it. As > long as it has a few people who know what they want, it might > stand unconquered for a while. Not because those people are > morally better than or in any way stronger than others, but > because they wisely choose a context for living and working > that lets them grow rather than corrupting them. > > The success of OpenBSD (with regard to keeping its original ideals in mind) has less to do with the size or structure and more to do with the overall goals and strength of the people involved. Writing off their ability to remain true to themselves and the community as a sort of accident or one of many equally probable outcomes is completely wrong. If it was not for Theo and the rest of the developers, and the community, standing up for themselves, it would have been dissolved into something different long ago despite the structure, popularity, size, whatever.
They actively work AGAINST corruption -- they don't simply avoid, ignore, or resist it.
