> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Spruell, Darren-Perot > Sent: March 10, 2006 12:34 PM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Pre-orders for our releases. > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OpenBSd always charges nothing back, that's an ideology (that's the > > way i see). The price of ideologies in a world like ours is expensive. > > > > For instance, i am tired of seeing big players using openssh and the > > like. They give nothing back to OpenBSD. Probable the thrid BSD > > license clause should be incorporated again. This would help than with > > an argument for supporting openbsd. > > > > Or they advertises openbsd is being used by them, or they cash > > something back. This way could be a means to estabilish a tradeoff for > > them to decide. > > And yet the meaning of free still escapes you. > > If you want these bastards to pay you for the software they use and make > money off of, then you license it in such a way that makes them pay for > it. > > Since the larger goal is to promote freedom in software usage (and by all > definitions of the word), then this is obviously not the solution anyone > wants. > > The BSD license doesn't make anyone give back, nor is it intended to. > Charity, guilt, conscience, appreciation, or just because you're a good > guy > are all reasons to give back. > > Corporate America cares about none of these. It's a sad reality. But at > this > point I think its a safe bet that the OpenBSD project is not bent on world > domination or getting rich and retiring to the Caymans on software sales. > > DS
I wouldn't go quite that far. Corporate anywhere cares about charity. Actually, to be honest, they care about charitable receipts. So if they can donate money to someone and get a receipt to use for tax purposes then that makes their beancounters happy. Of course, for this to benefit OpenBSD they'd have to be registered as a charitable organization etc. etc. and that is probably somewhere they either don't want to or can't go (or they already have and I just don't know)
