On 04/23/2013 03:31 PM, Loganaden Velvindron wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Nexodous _ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> To wit: >> >> "Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of >> paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate form >> of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style of) install >> are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact so that you can >> see how much easier it would have been if you had purchased a CDROM >> instead" >> >> The arrogance of the above statement which is clearly implying one should >> purchase the disc set vs. using downloads just goes to prove that the anal >> retentive group that runs OpenBSD needs to get out of their thumb sucking >> mentality and into the 21st century. >> >> I don't find it arrogant at all. CD Sales are a way to finance the > project. OpenBSD also > sends a lot of patches upstream. Look at the accept() backoff patches in > nsd that was shipped > recently. > > $50 twice a year is very little compared to hiring around 79 part-time > programmers and 1 full-time co-ordinator > to write a similar OS. > > In this day and age of open source software, attitudes like yours will get >> you one thing: *obsolescence* >> >> > Even if you use FreeBSD, you still use OpenSSH & PF which come from OpenBSD > :-) > > >> Count me as a contributor to such. >> Good bye. >> >> > CD sales aren't enough. Internet connection is paid by the OpenBSD > foundation, according to > what I read. The project needs more predictable income over a sustained > period. It would be a *huge* > loss to the entire Open Source ecosystem if the OpenBSD project dies. > > bugs@ isn't appropriate for such matters anyway. > Might I recommend to have a bitcoin address for donations? Let me know once someone puts that so that I can update all of the other places so that there can be a nice surge in donations for the OpenBSD foundation. Reddit among many other places is a good place to post for stuff like that, would be nice to have a good bump of interest with all the new found interest in bitcoins.
It would also be nice if we can buy our CD/DVD's with bitcoins. Way too much fee's in paypal, credit card and debit cards (just a thought). Especially for those outside of the U.S. or even Western world might facilitate for them the ordering process to do it that way. This May will be my first time buying the DVD for 5.3. Pretty excited about that, I have attempted to install a GUI on OpenBSD but I have not been able. Once I get 5.3 I am pretty sure my luck will change for the better with an easier installation. Yeah if you can't afford the DVD no need to flame, just ask someone for donation money or go beg. The OpenBSD developers are truly doing an incredible work, you can never thank them enough for doing what they are doing. Theo and everyone who contributes to this great OS would be earning soooo much more money if they decided to work on other projects. Keep up the good work. God Bless. -Jorge +PAX+ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
