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

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