Re: openbsd and the money [non-profit]

2006-04-05 Thread Benjamin Collins
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:00:56PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: There are very good reasons for not becoming a non-profit. Accounting wise it would NOT help the project. Non-profits with such a small amount of money are severely limited in what they can do. This question has been answered at

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-04-03 Thread Steffen Kluge
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:16 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: Try to name at least one incentive for Alberta to fund a project where the financial benefits will largely be reaped outside of Alberta. For a lot of people, OpenBSD has put Alberta on the map... Cheers Steffen.

OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-31 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
Hi, PLease do not forget the best way to help is to order ... Thank you for your OpenBSD Order! In case of problems or questions about this order, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Order number 2006/3/31-4:14:6-*: Your order currently is: - 1 [B02] Absolute OpenBSD Book @ EUR 40.00 - 1

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-29 Thread Michael Schmidt
Roger Neth Jr wrote: On 3/28/06, Daniel Walrond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:09:08PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: [...] unfortunately there is no real community around openbsd. at least i dont see one -- one where there are people without cvs commit. if you

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-29 Thread Bachman Kharazmi
in technological research so that it will be in a good position when oil money begins to dwindle. OpenBSD could surely qualify as a research organization without too much trouble, at which point you'd be eligible for substantial provincial funding. I recognize that government grants come with red

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-28 Thread Roger Neth Jr
On 3/28/06, Daniel Walrond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:09:08PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: twice a year (or maybe more) when it comes to money issues, Theo and the devs ask for donations, cd purchases. at the same time, people are every once in a while reminded

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Henning Brauer
* Tobias Kirschstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-25 20:26]: Maybe our friends of humppa.com will make a Humppa OpenBSD Support Tour 2006 or add them to the 11 OpenBSD songs. ... as you mention it: an (maybe more funny) idea would be some benefit humppa concerts with e.g. Elaekelaeiset where

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-27 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:35:05AM -0700, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: And a quick Google search reveals that this is a.) a dead horse, b.) already in place: http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies This should be referred to from http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Grégoire Welraeds
Wouldn't it be interesting to sell OpenSSH CD. I read the thread and people are always talking about OpenBSD CD but It might be interesting to sell OpenSSH CD (including sources, documentation and pre-builded binaries for most popular platforms). I think the audiance is more important. I have

openbsd-newbies (was: openbsd and the money -solutions)

2006-03-27 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2006-03-27 14:49:52 +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:35:05AM -0700, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: And a quick Google search reveals that this is a.) a dead horse, b.) already in place: http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies This should be referred to

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-27 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:25:32AM +0100, Jurjen Oskam wrote: There is no reason to provide funding from a business standpoint. What does the business gain? Does having a business standpoint require shutting off all common sense? In todays world: Mostly. Modern businesses have

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Rob
I think I've got the solution, at last. We'll set up a webpage where people can submit all their excellent, wacky, off-the-wall, and tired ideas and suggestions for raising money ... and each submission will cost the submitter a pittance, only a couple of hundred dollars. Part of that will pay

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-27 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Stefan Olsson spake: From: Alexander Bochmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:29 PM My guess is that especially (US-based) public companies don't want to be seen associated with OpenBSD (by donating, for example), as they fear damage to their business reputation from

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-27 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Timo Schoeler spake: thus Stefan Olsson spake: From: Alexander Bochmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:29 PM My guess is that especially (US-based) public companies don't want to be seen associated with OpenBSD (by donating, for example), as they fear damage to their

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread pauljgreene
-- Original message -- From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I've got the solution, at last. We'll set up a webpage where people can submit all their excellent, wacky, off-the-wall, and tired ideas and suggestions for raising money ... and each submission will

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Fraser
probably not be good in any other country than Canada. Instead OpenBSD should ask for advertising money. Advertising is a valid expense for every company in every country. For the company's money, OpenBSD could give either banner add or just a page listing advertisers. In some cases countries only

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Fraser
Understand that OpenBSD does not want to become incorporated, because of the overheads involved, but I don't understand why Theo de Raadt does not apply for a trade name http://governmentservices.gov.ab.ca/cr/reg_bus_name.cfm Trade names cost $10cdn. With a trade name you can open a bank account

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:56:14PM -0500, Peter Fraser wrote: In that case, OpenBSD should not ask for donations from business since it can not give a tax receipt, [...] I'm quite sure that, would the big players see the benefits giving monetary support to OpenBSD, they would contact Theo and

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Tobias Kirschstein
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:50:04 +0200 Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Tobias Kirschstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-25 20:26]: Maybe our friends of humppa.com will make a Humppa OpenBSD Support Tour 2006 or add them to the 11 OpenBSD songs. ... as you mention it: an (maybe more

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Ray Lai
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Tobias Kirschstein wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:50:04 +0200 Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Tobias Kirschstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-25 20:26]: Maybe our friends of humppa.com will make a Humppa OpenBSD Support Tour 2006 or add

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, ... It would be lot easier for a business to write a check to OpenBSD then to Theo de Raadt. look, it's really not about making it easier for some big few letter companies. If they would have been interested to donate they would've done it. Making it easier might give some more money from

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-27 Thread Jason George
Understand that OpenBSD does not want to become incorporated, because of the overheads involved, but I don't understand why Theo de Raadt does not apply for a trade name http://governmentservices.gov.ab.ca/cr/reg_bus_name.cfm Trade names cost $10cdn. With a trade name you can open a bank account

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-25 Thread Tobias Kirschstein
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:44:32 +0100 Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The songs are great - but like open{bsd,ssh} already at the public ftp servers. I don't think that there will be so many dudes who will pay for 9 old and only 2 new songs about 20-30 USD - even the artwork is great

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-25 Thread eric
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 16:38:55 -0700, Theo de Raadt proclaimed... Jason, get real -- everyone is entitled to you doing work for free. We do it. You must do it. Everyone else on this mailing list works for free, didn't you know that? Communism is a great idea when all the slaves are

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-25 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mar 25, 2006, at 6:19 PM, eric wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 16:38:55 -0700, Theo de Raadt proclaimed... Jason, get real -- everyone is entitled to you doing work for free. We do it. You must do it. Everyone else on this mailing list works for free, didn't you know that? Communism is a

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:13:44PM +0100, frantisek holop said that hmm, on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:23:02AM -0700, Theo de Raadt said that it would be interesting to know about how MUCH money donated to the openbsd project you all are REALLY talking here... Sad, eh. 350 donation

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Anton Karpov
I think, if we skip all the whinning, the one straight question from Frantisek Holop which is not yet clarified is why devs makes so cantradictory statements: we do code FOR OURSELVES, AND if you like it, you are free to use it and we THANK you with code (e.g. 'we code FOR YOU instead of giving

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Thu, 23.03.2006 at 16:26:04 -0500, Peter Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get money from the government you have to work with professionals consultants. The good ones are expensive, but they do work on a contingency basis. I don't agree, generally. This whole idea seems

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Grégoire Welraeds
quote from the openbsd and the money -solutions: [quote] I offer to do the administration. Who the fuck are you? Nobody, that's who. [/quote] Usual stuff on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even if one does not agree with the suggestion, is that a way of replying? The only thing it does is frustrate people

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread chefren
On 03/24/06 04:17, Theo de Raadt wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/OpenBSD_needs_a_major_donor http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/21/1555243 .. These donations from individuals are really great. The community is great. Thanks a lot. But we know this is the wrong way to fund

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't work that way. To develop an OS under a licence like the ISC has a big hole: funding. You can't just go: Hey, you use the implementation that I develop and give away for free, you should pay me!. If the pay you, OK, if the don't, well,

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2006-03-24 12:10:37 +0100, chefren wrote: This is whining and it isn't very sure because you have no idea what alternatives for the free OpenSSH product would have cost. They can happily use lsh. Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread mickey
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:40:59AM -0300, Andr?s Delfino wrote: Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't work that way. To develop an OS under a licence like the ISC has a big hole: funding. You can't just go: Hey, you use the implementation that I develop and give away for

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
It was the unique Unix-like OS with that licence. Right now, there are tons of other systems. Companies want to invest in Linux-based systems, because of marketing. On 3/24/06, mickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:40:59AM -0300, Andr?s Delfino wrote: Please, stop wanting

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:55:29PM -0500, Michael Hernandez wrote: I noticed that donations to OpenBSD are not US tax deductible as charitable contribution. I don't actually understand what that whining about tax deduction is about. If tax deduction means, for example, that you get 25% of

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Damien Miller
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, chefren wrote: Demand something like $50 a year for access to the ftp.openbsd.org now!!! You are suggesting that we screw the people who have contributed by far the most to OpenBSD and OpenSSH, individual users and small organisations. Not a very bright idea. -d

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Damien Miller
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Andris Delfino wrote: Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't work that way. To develop an OS under a licence like the ISC has a big hole: funding. You can't just go: Hey, you use the implementation that I develop and give away for free, you should pay

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
As I have said before, BSD was the unique Unix-like operative system with a ISC-style license. That's why, IMHO, companies invested in it. On 3/24/06, Damien Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Andris Delfino wrote: Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread mickey
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:36:01AM -0300, Andr?s Delfino wrote: It was the unique Unix-like OS with that licence. Right now, there are tons of other systems. Companies want to invest in Linux-based systems, because of marketing. what are you smoking dude? what unique? there was not att unix

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Deanna Phillips
Ryan Flannery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really hate prolonging this thread, but I'm curious about the following... I've done quite bit of contract work around my area, and in most cases I've been able to implement OpenBSD for something. Whenever that's happened, I've always pushed for the

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread chefren
On 03/24/06 13:54, Damien Miller wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, chefren wrote: Demand something like $50 a year for access to the ftp.openbsd.org now!!! You are suggesting that we screw the people who have contributed by far the most to OpenBSD and OpenSSH, individual users and small

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:20:08PM -0500, Peter Fraser wrote: I recognize that government grants come with red-tape, and people are often disdainful of taking hand-outs. In this case, however, I'd think the pros outweigh the cons. Don't you have a wish-list of things you'd implement

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread mickey
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:10:36AM -0300, Andr?s Delfino wrote: As I have said before, BSD was the unique Unix-like operative system with a ISC-style license. That's why, IMHO, companies invested in it. they supported it because they used it for their own product. so what has changed in 'em

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:42:48PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: I don't actually understand what that whining about tax deduction is about. My guess is that it's not about the tax deduction in itself (although that certainly helps), it's about the receipt. Companies very much like to

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Diana Eichert
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, mickey wrote: SNAP sorry dude but you are full of shit. for example from history: how do you think bsd was developped originally at the ucb? cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained) Lot's of money flowing from the US

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:52:55PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: So it's probably easier to get a company to order a few hundred CDs instead of a donation. By the way, the golden CD signed by all core developers for $9000 might just be the thing to add to the store. :) Alex.

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
Don't do that, that is extortion. If you don't want to make OpenBSD free-as-in-freedom, but not free-as-in-beer; well, there is another thing that might help. Companies will only donate if they gain something, not just code, I'm talking about money. I'm not a legal guy, but: isn't there a way to

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread mickey
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:43:27AM -0700, Diana Eichert wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, mickey wrote: SNAP sorry dude but you are full of shit. for example from history: how do you think bsd was developped originally at the ucb? cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Brian
--- Deanna Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I think a wall of shame page on the OpenSSH site might be a good idea: one listing all those big companies mentioned that have never donated a dime. Negative PR might result in more donations than managers receiving the minor

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Diana Eichert
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, mickey wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:43:27AM -0700, Diana Eichert wrote: SNIP Lot's of money flowing from the US Gov't Dept of Defense? and big companies... sorry Mickey, but I've been involved with DOD DOE ( and it's predecessors) for almost 25 years. UC get's a

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Deanna Phillips
Andris Delfino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't do that, that is extortion. Well, it needn't be so severe. It could simply be an addition to the users page ( http://www.openssh.org/users.html ) with parenthetical notes such as: ( has donated to the project -- thank you. ) next to those that

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Pedro Timóteo
Alexander Bochmann wrote: ..on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:52:55PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: So it's probably easier to get a company to order a few hundred CDs instead of a donation. By the way, the golden CD signed by all core developers for $9000 might just be the thing to add to

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Ryan Fox
(I'm so sorry that I'm continuing this thread...) There is quite a conflict between the core developers that don't wish to spend their time nicely holding newbies' hands (frankly, I don't want them to spend their time on that either), and the touchy-feely people that think OpenBSD would

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Hannah Schroeter
a paper trail if you use bank money transfers. Just as OpenBSD have setup it now (which is definitely a good move; if there's an account in Germany, I'll seriously consider doing an automated periodical donation, small, but regular, dunno whether that also works for non-German Euro zone bank accounts

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/03/24 11:20, Ryan Fox wrote: Why don't we have separate lists? One for general questions, and gently guiding new users to the FAQ and man pages? Like misc@ and http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies, you mean?

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:20:19AM -0500, Ryan Fox wrote: Why don't we have separate lists? One for general questions, and gently guiding new users to the FAQ and man pages? It can be all fuzzy and warm; a place for pleasantries. And a separate list for more experienced users that want

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Pedro Timsteo wrote: Alexander Bochmann wrote: ..on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:52:55PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: So it's probably easier to get a company to order a few hundred CDs instead of a donation. By the way, the golden CD signed by all core

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
So it's probably easier to get a company to order a few hundred CDs instead of a donation. By the way, the golden CD signed by all core developers for $9000 might just be the thing to add to the store. :) After it costs $8500 to get it Fedex'd back and forth all over the world to

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 3/24/06, chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Demand something like $50 a year for access to the ftp.openbsd.org now!!! great idea. that's $50 from ibm, $50 from sun, $50 from redhat, and $50 from apple. $200 sounds about right to cover all the expenses. in case the project ends up using a

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
I don't actually understand what that whining about tax deduction is about. My guess is that it's not about the tax deduction in itself (although that certainly helps), it's about the receipt. Companies very much like to generate a proper paper trail when they hand out money, and

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/03/24 15:13, Pedro Timsteo wrote: Or, like someone suggested a couple of weeks ago: OpenBSD Enterprise Edition: it's exactly the same software, but comes on 20 (mostly empty) CDs, and costs 100 times as much. :) Same CD set, booklet turned around to display a boring alternative

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Greg Thomas
On 3/24/06, Ryan Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is quite a conflict between the core developers that don't wish to spend their time nicely holding newbies' hands (frankly, I don't want them to spend their time on that either), and the touchy-feely people that think OpenBSD would progress

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread David Terrell
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:17:42PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/OpenBSD_needs_a_major_donor http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/21/1555243 No one seems to care (unless donations have shot up and Theo, et. al. haven't mentioned it) From what I

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] That said, I think a wall of shame page on the OpenSSH site might be a good idea: one listing all those big companies mentioned that have never donated a dime. Negative PR might result in more donations than managers receiving the minor annoyance message

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't we have separate lists? One for general questions, and gently guiding new users to the FAQ and man pages? It can be all fuzzy and warm; a place for pleasantries. And a separate list for more experienced users that want to dwell in the lair of

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Peter
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:29:19AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: That said, when 4.0 comes out there will likely be an audio CD made of all 11 of the songs, with artwork to match, sold seperately. The songs are great - but like open{bsd,ssh} already at the public ftp servers. I don't think that

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mar 24, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Kevin wrote: We can (and do) have the company purchase one copy of each release CD set. I might be able to convince them to go for Jason Dixon's offer (if it's still valid), though it might need a little polishing to be buzzword-compliant. If there is interest,

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Diana Eichert
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Kevin wrote: SNIP We can (and do) have the company purchase one copy of each release CD set. I might be able to convince them to go for Jason Dixon's offer (if it's still valid), though it might need a little polishing to be buzzword-compliant. Jason't offer is still

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread James Mackinnon
missed some. James Mackinnon Devantec Solutions - Original Message - From: Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:02 PM Subject: Re: openbsd and the money -solutions I did not mean to step on another sacred cow - I

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Steve Tornio
James Mackinnon wrote: If you do offer paypal for the stuff above, I will buy more frequently as to do my part to help support the System I trust with my systems/network security. I will send a donation now as well as I can do that VIA paypal (won't be large, but it will be a donation)

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread eric
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 15:59:31 -0500, Jason Dixon proclaimed... Or the main page at http://www.dixongroup.net/?q=openbsd. What about a gold bundle that is $1000 or more? I mean, money is just water to most corporations. If there's a legit product, hell, they pay anything for it.

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Chet Uber
Finally having to weight in: I personally and my company has been buying at least 2 copies of each release and t-shirts for as long as I can remember. The store folks do a great job, and the one time they mixed up an order they sent me a T-shirt and a nice reply. Theo and many others have

Re: OpenBSD and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Henning Brauer
* Michael Favinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-24 19:53]: 2) Lots of companies can't send money out until they get a bill. There needs to be some way to generate a donation invoice that can be taken to accounting. We need to be able to present our accounting departments with paperwork that says

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:15 PM, eric wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 15:59:31 -0500, Jason Dixon proclaimed... Or the main page at http://www.dixongroup.net/?q=openbsd. What about a gold bundle that is $1000 or more? I mean, money is just water to most corporations. If there's a legit product,

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
Realistically, I can't offer my services out for free at more than 8 hours per customer. If someone wants to pay me above and beyond, with the extra funds earmarked for a donation to OpenBSD, I'll gladly pass the money on to the project. Jason, get real -- everyone is entitled to you

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Matthew Closson
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Chet Uber wrote: 1. Read the damn FAQ's, newbies, and do a Google search on what you are about to waste list bandwidth on. People on the project spend good time getting this done for us. 2. Buy the CD, and quit bitching about it. For that matter be a good neighbor and buy

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Brian
--- Spruell, Darren-Perot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better approach. How about said companies belly up and support the group that enables them (in part) to enjoy the financial success they have? Because there is no reason for them to. Here's what would happen: 1) license change comes out 2)

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Felipe Scarel
Copyright law is complex, OpenBSD policy is simple - OpenBSD strives to maintain the spirit of the original Berkeley Unix copyrights. This is the first sentence of this page: http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html Can't people see how ridiculous is all that talk about why don't we change the

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-24 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thankless? you sir, are the most thankless project leader i have ever seen in my life. We thank with code. We don't come shower people with nice words. We write code. i have been advocating openbsd since the 2.6 times and buying

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:15:27PM -0800, Brian wrote: There is no reason to provide funding from a business standpoint. What does the business gain? Does having a business standpoint require shutting off all common sense? Everytime someone mentions things like business decision or business

openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread frantisek holop
just before i order my 3.9: this is what i feel sometimes, and i think sometimes more of you do. people who read misc@ for years might identify the following (for me disturbing) trend: twice a year (or maybe more) when it comes to money issues, Theo and the devs ask for donations, cd

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:09:08PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: [...] Now can EVERBODY please submit their personal feelings and put oil into this starting FLAMEWAR. Oh and please add a THEOFLAMEWAR string to the subject, so that i can easily set up maildrop rules... Thanks! Tobias

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
This is what I see: Community - [EMAIL PROTECTED] and as far as I can remember non of devs has ever told me what I'm nobody. On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:09, frantisek holop wrote: just before i order my 3.9: this is what i feel sometimes, and i think sometimes more of you do. people

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Craig Skinner
frantisek holop wrote: except when it comes to money. well, well. then suddenly we ARE a community, we are NEEDED and should feel as one, so we can join powers and walk off into the setting sun. it is this hypocracy i hate the most (just as much as Theo does too -- that is why i love

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:09:08PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: if you don't have cvs commit, you are a nobody that's what misc@ will teach any newcomer using iron and fire. i try to be part of a community but the devs say you are nobody and should be glad that you can use this stuff. It's

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:49:49AM -0300, Pedro Martelletto said that On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:09:08PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: if you don't have cvs commit, you are a nobody that's what misc@ will teach any newcomer using iron and fire. i try to be part of a community but the

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:03:58PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: i never did try to present this as absolute truth, all the mail is my personal opinion. Okay, thanks for clarifying that. -p.

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello frantisek, Thursday, March 23, 2006, 8:09:08 AM, you wrote: fh this is what i feel sometimes, and i think sometimes more of you do. fh unfortunately there is no real community around openbsd. at least fh i dont see one -- one where there are people without cvs commit. fh if you don't have

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 3/23/06, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i never did try to present this as absolute truth, all the mail is my personal opinion. just shutup and donate already! -K

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Craig
My oh my, that is an ill-informed rant, isn't it? Feel better now? I'm not going to a bloat out the list by explaining to your bruised ego, how you are wrong and have the wrong outlook in all of this. Go figure it out for yourself. -- Best regards, Craig http://slashboot.org/ Support

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:36, you wrote: This is what I see: Community - [EMAIL PROTECTED] and as far as I can remember non of devs has ever told me what I'm nobody. Good for you. On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:09, frantisek holop wrote: just before i order my 3.9: this is what i

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Fergus Wilde
On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:09, frantisek holop wrote: just before i order my 3.9: this is what i feel sometimes, and i think sometimes more of you do. people who read misc@ for years might identify the following (for me disturbing) trend: twice a year (or maybe more) when it comes to

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
I would really appreciate if you guys could stop responding to this thread.

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Roger Neth Jr
On 3/23/06, Fergus Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:09, frantisek holop wrote: just before i order my 3.9: this is what i feel sometimes, and i think sometimes more of you do. people who read misc@ for years might identify the following (for me

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread MG
frantisek holop wrote: unfortunately there is no real community around openbsd. at least i dont see one -- one where there are people without cvs commit. if you don't have cvs commit, you are a nobody that's what misc@ will teach any newcomer using iron and fire. i try to be part of a community

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
it would be interesting to know about how MUCH money donated to the openbsd project you all are REALLY talking here... if there's any up-to-date published information, plz. let me know... best regards! ps: sorry guys, i couldn't 'stand it ;_)

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
you Theo, have the luxury only few have Actually the real luxury all of us have is that we can delete mails from people who only think of themselves. WE make it possible for YOU Theo to do this. so don't tell me i am lucky to use openbsd. Fine. So stop making it possible for (not me), but

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
it would be interesting to know about how MUCH money donated to the openbsd project you all are REALLY talking here... In the last month about 1/5th of what we need to run in a year has been donated. Sad, eh. 350 donation transactions in one month. I had no idea that the OpenSSH deployment

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: it would be interesting to know about how MUCH money donated to the openbsd project you all are REALLY talking here... In the last month about 1/5th of what we need to run in a year has been donated. Sad, eh. 350 donation transactions in one

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
it would be interesting to know about how MUCH money donated to the openbsd project you all are REALLY talking here... In the last month about 1/5th of what we need to run in a year has been donated. Sad, eh. 350 donation transactions in one month. I had no idea that the OpenSSH

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