> Hmm. The last time money was short I unselfishly offered my time to help > raise > money, because I wanted to help.
I have been the recipient of hundreds of these "I want to help" letters. In this last donation drive I have received over 200 letters, and then had to spend a lot of hours going through them. In the end, after about 10 of them will go somewhere, with actual people who can help OpenBSD and OpenSSH get where they want to. Those letters contain actual offers to fund hackathons, or actual offers to force their employer to do the right thing, or they contain questions about how much donation would help -- followed by an donation happening. The other 190 mails have been people telling us to change our process; and about 180 of them have been people telling us that we would be better off making our software less free. Helping us does not include telling us how to make our software less free for some segment of the market. It does not include telling us to treat some software uses less equal than others. Helping us does not include telling us to setup a US non-profit when I am not US-based, and when a US non-profit would have a big problem funding things that are almost exclusively not in the US. It does not include asking me 10 questions about our processes and such when those things are evident on our mailing list and even in the first sentence of our web page. It does not include any sentence like "I want to help you, but you must help me understand ..." The 10 people who are helping get it. They know that help is about action, and that if you stops at just words, it just plain isn't help. I don't remember you specifically, but I can make a really good guess which catagory you are in. SO go ahead, take this mail as a rebuke, take it as an attack on you if you must. Say that this is exactly why misc@ is a problem for you, and why that justifies you villifying us further. But in the end, these are precisely the types of mails and personalities that keep me from finishing the OpenSSH cleanup.... I am doing. That's helpful? You have started this thread with EXACTLY the kind of mail that you say you have a problem with. Pretty smurt, eh.
