On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:29:22PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > > -- Robert A. Heinlein > > I was trying to decide if I should reply, and if so, how. > > I looked for your name on the donations list. I don't see it.
Out of curiosity, when I bought several t-shirts at the kd85 shop in Belgium, does actually a part of it go to the donations list and do I pop there up with few dollars? I also suggest that the list include the cumulative amount for each donor, sorted so that the biggest donors are at the top. Personally, it would motivate me more. I would have a feeling of control what's actually done with my money. If Theo somehow published some breakdown of the spending, even better. If he actually assigned my donation to a concrete thing (i. e. Packet filter development,...), that would be even better. I would also have a motivation to compete for the topmost positions, with sending money as my weapon :) I could boast to my friends look I paid xxx of OpenBSD and I am the xth biggest donor and the packet filter you are using is actually paid from that. People are not computers, they decide based on emotions, and if you tune the psychological aspect of the thing you can induce better emotions without actually compromising your ideology. If other people think the same way like me, then Theo would start getting more donations if he changed to that system. Sometimes I wonder how much money goes to paying Theo's time, how much into paying other people like artists, how much into buying hardware, and if something of that isn't actually financed in an inefficient way. If I saw the real numbers, these concerns would probably vanish. CL< > > But your quote makes it clear. > > I don't know what to say. I am trying to get past the first > impression of you being a whining liar who quotes some fiction author. > > Give it up. He uses our software, and he's not worth the discussion.
