Suggestions about how OpenBSD can get more funding are moot. They've been beaten to death (the nerves of heavy misc goers can relate.)
It took me awhile to realize this, but suggestions--words and thoughts--here are worthless. Theo and company don't need help thinking, they obviously have sharp minds and can do that for themselves. What is needed is code. Code, Code, Code. That's all that is important. Money facilitates that. So, stop thinking about how to get money and go get it. Its fairly simple. If you have a corporate entity that has money to burn and you want to relieve them of it, go read "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. When you donate to OpenBSD, its not going down some drain. You're buying new features that the developers want to write! Features that greatly benefit you. Stopped donating because your feature requests are not honored? Code it yourself! That seems harsh, does it not? Well if a developer wants something, he will write it. Bugging him to write it for you is pointless. Even if your idea is fantastic, the developers have a lot to do, and they will focus on what they want. But keep in mind that what they want is generally what you want (security and reliability.) I bet there are things the developers want and you want too. Can you guess what's getting in the way of those things happening? Once they are satisfied with what they want, then they might look into what you want? Any thoughts when that is going to happen? I can't forget the "Theo is a prick so I don't donate" argument. If you want to spend money so someone is nice to you, go get a hooker. Yes, you will get yelled at here if you ask stupid and redundant questions or waste perfectly good oxygen in general. Buying stuff and donating is not and excuse for not thinking. And finally there is the "Theo and Company should be thankful to me for donating, he has no right to act in such and such a manner." No fool! It is You that should be thankful. Think about how much of their lives they've put into OpenBSD! Your dollars pale in comparison to their investments and commitments (no pun intended.) Please, stop with the brain dead blather. If the developers are pecking away at their keyboards, I'd rather have them in vi than mutt. You're wasting your time, my time, and their time. So google first, google often. Thanks! Travers Buda P.S. Donate and buy swag. There are too few people here to pick up the slack when you act upon the idea that someone else will keep the money flowing. This falls on YOU!
