I changed the subject line.... On 14/08/14 10:52, Eric Furman wrote: > Fine, buy a T-shirt, but realize that only a small fraction of the cost > actually goes to OpenBSD. When you buy a CD the vast majority > of the cost goes to OpenBSD. Who cares whether you need the > CD or not. Buy if for the cool stickers. Throw the CD in the trash > for all I and the OpenBSD developers care.
Respectfully I find that a bit offensive. Ask me for a donation if you want. But do not expect me to by an object to be manufactured, shipped 1/3 of the way around the globe and then I'll through it in the trash. Not cool at all. OpenBSD is, it seems, very cool and worth supporting. I am investigating using the mechanism detailed in http://www.openbsd.org/bank-donation.html... Looking at https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order there seems to be no difference in CDs and T'Shirts in so far as where the money goes. I do understand from conversations I have had that there is a difference. Lastly: IMO It is time to change. CDs are no longer useful. I have OpenBSD on a VPS so stickers are a waste of time too. I would like to donate some money, but it is not easy. I would like to know for sure that the money goes to the project. For expenses or to developers, who spend so much time on this, to spend on whatever they want (beer, fish, little rubber balls...) But I will not buy things I cannot use. Worik -- Why is the legal status of chardonnay different to that of cannabis? worik.stan...@gmail.com 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand) [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
