Sorry, was getting sloppy (rushed). Quote is from Wikipedia on OpenBSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD
-louis On 22 Apr 2014, at 18:13, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2014, at 17:56, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 04/22/2014 09:57 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>> I'm not sure I am up on the latest. Who's doing the OpenBSD port? >>> >>> Just curious. OpenBSD remains, afaict, a quite useful port, for any number >>> of excellent geek reasons. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Louis >> >> We have a FreeBSD port, but OpenBSD -- ???? >> >> see: >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ > > right. And Maho used to be a principal in its maintenance. > > I was thinking about OpenBSD because: > > "On 14 January 2014, Bob Beck issued a request for funding to cover > electrical costs. If sustainable funding was not found, Beck suggested > OpenBSD would shut down.[39] The project soon received a USD$ 20 000 donation > from Mircea Popescu, the Romanian creator of the MPEx Bitcoin stock exchange, > paid in Bitcoins. The project raised USD$150 000[40] in response to the > appeal, enabling it to pay its bills and securing its short term future.[41]" > > > As is well known, OpenBSD had a dramatic birth: one of the original forks due > as much to personality as to anything else. It also has kept with the > "benevolent" dictator model (note the placement of the ironizing quotation > marks). The begging campaign (aka fundraising) was successful, according to > Wikipedia. > > -louis > >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." >> -- Helen Keller >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
