On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM, J.C. Roberts <j...@designtools.org> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:19:16 -0700 Bryan Irvine <sparcta...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I also heard it said once (though I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong) >> that Theo's salary comes from CD purchases but not donations. So the >> only way to keep him employed full-time on OpenBSD is by buying the >> disks. >> >> -B > > Curiosity is only human, but to respect the privacy of others, sometimes > it must be curtailed.
Agreed...though I'm confused about the point you're making. > I do possess a very vivid imagination, and worse, a truly caustic sense > of humor, so should I start publicly and wildly speculating about how > *you* make a living? Naturally you are always free to do so. > The result might be very entertaining for some, but it wouldn't be very > polite or fair to you. Maybe so, but I've not said anything he himself has not said in public. http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg74265.html It seemed to me that it was being suggested to skip buying the CD and making a donation was a good idea. I'm merely pointing out that in order to keep Theo's significant other happy (which certainly benefits us all I'm sure ;-) a CD purchase would still be appropriate. -B
