Until earlier today I was unaware that it is much easier for Europeans
to donate via direct bank transfers. Apparently bank transfers,
compared to paypal or credit card transactions, are more reliable,
more secure, and very inexpensive. (Between countries in the Euro zone
they may not cost more than a national bank transfer would).
So we have setup a bank account, and people can use the following
information for IBAN and SWIFT/BIC transfers:
http://www.openbsd.org/bank-donation.html
Again, thanks so much to those of you who are donating. It makes us a
bit sad that almost all of you are individuals, and that companies and
operating system vendors appear uniformly unwilling to participate.
Inside our group, we are discussing a policy change regarding how we
will deal with potential future OpenSSH security problems, and this
might convince the vendors a little bit better, but we have to discuss
some more details because it feels a bit like we would be using the
stick instead of the carrot (that said, 5 years of repeated contacts
to vendors with the carrot of "please help us" has gotten us
absolutely nothing).
