On 15 Jan 2014, at 16.35, Gilles LAMIRAL <gilles.lami...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Dear Theo, > >> Don't we do enough? > > You already do too much. I have long held the opinion that Theo is probably the best coder on this planet. That’s not any sort of ass-kissing, either, it’s my objective, unbiased opinion. And I know Henning personally, as in “live and worked together with him" - one hell of an expert. However, the dilemma that the project has found itself in now very clearly demonstrates that Theo is not a businessman and that there isn’t any other businessman at the helm, either. Imagining that people will suddenly start to pay for something that they have constantly been getting for free is absurd - their belief is that somebody else will surely step up first or somebody will fork in the name of fame. No business on this planet is going to allocate budget to paying OpenBSD’s electricity bills, let alone anything else, without 1) a detailed itemisation of the electrical bills, 2) a detailed justification of said line items, and 3) a satisfaction of their own business interest. It’s just not sexy for a philanthropist to support a relatively unheard of operating system when cancer is still left uncured. It’s not good to be removing coders from their tasks; the project needs a businessman or two. One who will handle the corporate feature requests and charge dearly for them. Things like routing technology and high-speed packet forwarding - things that can replace the exorbitant costs of maintaining cisco routers. This is the key. With the FBSD 10GB wire speed packet forwarding incorporated, OpenBSD would be ready to challenge Cisco in a very serious way. Completely free as always, but with paid support for this edge cases that make life what it is. Thanks Theo, Henning, and all of the rest of you. -mike
