> Isn't there any OpenBSD guy defending Mr. Wim Vandeputte, a man > having promoted OpenBSD year in and year out
He's now put forward a document saying that he promoted OpenBSD using project money. That was never authorized. He says he has it in giant piles of T-shirt stock (yet OpenBSD gets absolutely nothing for tshirt sales in Europe). > and having supported the > project in Europe like nobody else probably? Supported the project? How? By taking the project's money and spending towards attendance at open sourec events where he got into the door without an entrance free, or a table fee, so that he could sell Soekris hardware and OpenBSD tshirts for his own profit? He had the best deal anyone in the world could hope for; he was considered 'open source' and then he could sell product at conferences. Sometimes from under the table, if the organizers were not terribly happy with the idea. Did the organizers know that the tshirts he had drapped over the table did not go to the project? All that OpenBSD wanted out of this deal was the proper profits from the CD sales; ie. 60% of the sale value advertised at the international site. Yet he did not meet that deal. > What a shame. > > I know Wim personally for many years, I have seen some of his work and > I have the deepest respect for him and what he has done. And then I ask... do you have respect for what I have done? Since my (slightly over meager) salary is based entirely on CD sales, and since Wim has held back payment of CD revenue for many years and instead pushed that money into his own (for-profit) T-shirt stockpile and into his own attendance at Linux and other open source events in Europe where he could sell Soekris... well, what of me? If I am not taken care of, will Wim be the next OpenBSD project leader, working with all the developers day after day to get changes into the source tree, and making releases every 6 months? You respect him because he sold you a CD, and put the money into his pocket. You respect him because he sold you a tshirt and put the money into his pocket. You respect him because he sold you a poster and put the money into his pocket. You perhaps even respect him because he passed you a beer over the table, but we wonder, who was it that was paying for that beer if he is now so in debt himself and unable to pay us, while he has a brand new house in Belgium? Sorry; it may come as a shock to you, but putting things into people's hands (CDs, tshirts, posters, money) is not what OpenBSD is about. The whole issue is not about respect. It is about money owed.
