Or to put austin's answer more succinctly - We accept donations because you want to support OpenBSD and it's efforts.
We do not sell links on donations.html - please do not ask us to purchase one. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Austin Hook <aus...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Alwin van der Velden wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > My name is Alwin from the recently launched Flugreisenvergleichen.de > > (Unabh?ngiges Vergleichsportal) and we would like to donate to OpenBSD to > > be listed at http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html. > > > > What amount would be minimum to donate? > > > > Looking forward to hearing from you! > > > > Viele Gru?e, > > Alwin > > > > *Flugreisenvergleichen.de* > > > > Hi Alwin, > > When making a donation, consider that if it is very small, and since it is > kind of a manual process to list names on the website, someone is donating > their time to post your name/link to edit the webpage. Hopefully, the > donation is worth more than what the distraction from that person's time > would be worth, if applied to direct creative work. > > Another point is, that donations to OpenBSD should not be made in exchange > for a cross-posting service. In that case they would be considered as > being on a fee for service basis, and hence taxable, which would damage > the whole intent and process for everyone, and quickly create immense > paperwork ramifications and costs. Donations can only be accepted as > purely voluntary with no strings attached. If donors names are displayed, > on the website, it is strictly to honor the voluntary intent, and would > not be done at all if requested as a "service". > > Note also that there are different ways to donate to the future of > OpenBSD. You can donate directly to Theo de Raadt or to the OpenBSD > foundation. Donating to Theo (the project leader), or to one of the > developers, to apply as he/she sees most opportune, gives a bit more > flexibility to what is at heart a quite loose and adhoc group of > developers who contribute immense amounts of there personal time. > > Donating to the OpenBSD foundation is a somewhat more formal path, and the > foundation has to apply government regulated strict "non-profit" > disbursement of funds towards socially valuable objectives. > > Hopefully your company is able to use OpenBSD or it's tools and the > donation is in gratitude for the work of the developers who donate their > time for the benefit of everyone, and for the pleasure of creating some of > the world's finest examples of system software. > > Regards, > > Austin Hook > Milk River, Alberta, Caanda > > =========================================================================== > When emailing me the first time from a new email address, or passing mine > to a colleague, please include a special pass phrase in the body of the > text, see: http://computershop.ca/emailpass.html Best to use a separate > line. Keep the spacing between words. Currently the phrase is: blue > wooden shoe. > ===========================================================================
