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>

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