Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> writes: > ... and how well does that work. A request for money to buy 3 new > infrastructure machines gathered more donation money in 1 week > ... than all the other donations for the previous 6 months. I often > wonder how many of those were "FTP install donations". Very few, I > think. Either there aren't a lot of people, or they are poor, or > they lack the spirit. Shrug.
Specific fundraising requests usually outperform general fundraising requests -- not just in the software world, but in social work and politics as well. My point being that this is not specific to OpenBSD or the free software world. -- Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky <cr...@red-bean.com>