On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Kevin wrote: SNIP > Right. > Because for-profit businesses wants to see return on their "investment", > thus a company will seldom give stuff away because it feels good.
Then you ( the generic you ) needs to do a better job of explaining to management the cost savings associated with using OpenBSD. Management is only interested in ROI, I know I used to be one. > I'm working right now to donate hardware (mostly for Todd and Marco). > About to ship the small stuff (SCSI and FCAL gear), but it's non-trivial > to convince a Fortune 500 to "donate" anything without even getting a > tax write-off in return. Try this with a government agency someday. I see G5's already in our reapplication area. > Last year I gave ten weeks of electricity for the machine room to OpenBSD. > Meanwhile my employer bought exactly *two* CDs, and I had to push for that. > > Kevin Kadow Good to hear, now just keep doing this and hope that others will join in. diana