On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Breen Ouellette wrote:
> Eliah Kagan wrote:
> > That would still be most OpenBSD users, wouldn't it?
>
> I honestly do not know as I do not have access to the size of the user base
> nor the financial needs of the project. If 5000 users gave $100 per year to
> the project that would be half a million dollars. Are there 5000 users? Is
> half a million per year more or less than the project earns now? Half a
> million seems like a lot, but it only represents 10 developers on a yearly
> salary of $50,000, and I personally feel that there are developers that are
> worth at least that much for a full time contribution. Do the paid developers
> currently take more or less salary to work full time on OpenBSD? How much of
> the yearly budget needs to go toward hardware purchases? Operating expenses?
> Does Revenue Canada get its dirty little fingers into this? There are too many
> unknown variables to answer this.
There is one known factor, though: almost all developers work as
volunteers, the project does not pay salaries (there have been
exceptions, but I'm talking about the current situation). Some
developers work for companies and do OpenBSD (related) stuff in their
work time, but in general, developers work in their spare time. The
exception being Theo, of course.
-Otto
