Dear Postfix folks,
Looking at the Postfix Web site [1], I couldn’t find any information if Postfix needs financial support to ensure the maintenance and improvement of the code.
As the background, a lot of public organizations use Postfix in their infrastructure, and, as for example with OpenSSL, they do not pay anything for it, but they expect that it is maintained and improved. This is a fatal attitude in my opinion. Additionally, the administrators normally do not need training or support, as a lot of them are quite capable, and know their way around Postfix. Also, public organizations getting tax payer money also have a hard time to donate money.
So, can the Postfix project be supported financially? Can “core developers” like Wietse and Viktor be supported?
Are their companies providing support contracts, where employees are actively supporting the Postfix development by either sending patches (including documentation) or promising to give a certain amount of that money to the Postfix project? I found for example credativ [2].
Kind regards, Paul [1] http://www.postfix.org/ [2] http://www.credativ.de/software/software%C3%BCbersicht/mail/postfix
