A thought suddenly occurs. Perhaps big companies that use OpenBSD do not
want to disclose their use by donating because they fear that this might
give their competitors an advantage(now their competitors know what OS
they're using), or might help crackers/s-kiddies/etc. attack that
company now that they know what OS they're running (this is not an
attack on OpenBSD's security. I'm saying that anybody could take a
secure OS and make it insecure, even multi-million dollar corporations)
Wijnand Wiersma wrote:
On 3/10/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But financially we are under strain, and it is not letting us grow any
of our bigger plans.
It sounds like you really have big plans. Maybe it is a good idea to
tell about them, maybe that will make the big companies interested in
sponsoring some of that work.
And what... they'll help us out like they helped us with OpenSSH?
Maybe I think too good about people/companies, but maybe if you want
to create xxxx and a company really likes that they maybe sponsor. If
you have big plans and need money for that and that company really
needs feature xxxx they might think hey let's sponsor this.
But I am just guessing, maybe the world we live in is worse than I have in mind.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
Wijnand
