On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:52:29 +0100 (CET) Antoine Jacoutot
<ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm usually not very active on misc@ but since pre-order for 4.7 have
> started, I think it is the right time to remind us all that CD sales
> are not only important but critical to the project.
>
> First, lack of money means less hackathons, which renders hacking less
> fun, and fun is the number 1 motivation for most people imho.
> No money -> no hackathon -> no fun -> no hack... you see the point.
> Also a project this big (yes, a hobby can be huge) does not rules
> itself out of the air and money is needed for infrastructure,
> administration, hardware and tons of other things.
>
> So if you like OpenBSD, don't forget its biannual bithday and buy CDs.
> If you don't like OpenBSD, then buy even more CDs because having
> competition is good for other projects.
>
> Thank you all.
>
> --
> Antoine
Antoine,
Though supporting the project with purchases is always very important,
your thoughts on "developing developers" or as you said "breeding
developers" are equally important.
As Theo taught me a decade ago, the project is code.
There are people like me, normal users, who support the project in
simple ways like purchases, and then there are people like you who do
the real work of writing great code, maintaining steelix, and similar.
The difference is substantial, but not very well understood.
jcr
