On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Andris Delfino wrote: > Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't work that > way. To develop an OS under a licence like the ISC has a big hole: > funding. You can't just go: Hey, you use the implementation that I > develop and give away for free, you should pay me!. If the pay you, > OK, if the don't, well, that's OK too, and more realistic.
Even if we were to accept your pessimistic worldview that organisational gratitude is only a myth, then it is still in companies who use OpenBSD or OpenSSH interest to contribute - funding committed and internally-motivated developers to improve components of your product is far less expensive than recruiting, training, paying and providing office space for semi-motivated staff who crank out code of varying quality for financial reward alone. BTW, your linkage between the license and a lack of funding is specious, and there exist plenty of counter examples - including BSD itself. -d
