On 8/13/14, Worik Stanton <[email protected]> wrote: > I changed the subject line.... > > On 14/08/14 10:52, Eric Furman wrote: >> Fine, buy a T-shirt, but realize that only a small fraction of the cost >> actually goes to OpenBSD. When you buy a CD the vast majority >> of the cost goes to OpenBSD. Who cares whether you need the >> CD or not. Buy if for the cool stickers. Throw the CD in the trash >> for all I and the OpenBSD developers care. > > Respectfully I find that a bit offensive. Ask me for a donation if you > want. But do not expect me to by an object to be manufactured, shipped > 1/3 of the way around the globe and then I'll through it in the trash. > Not cool at all.
You can do what I do. I purchase the CDs but request the vendor not to send me the actual, physical CDs. That's my preferred donation method. Cheers, --patrick > OpenBSD is, it seems, very cool and worth supporting. I am > investigating using the mechanism detailed in > http://www.openbsd.org/bank-donation.html... > > Looking at https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order there seems to be no > difference in CDs and T'Shirts in so far as where the money goes. I do > understand from conversations I have had that there is a difference. > > Lastly: IMO It is time to change. CDs are no longer useful. I have > OpenBSD on a VPS so stickers are a waste of time too. I would like to > donate some money, but it is not easy. I would like to know for sure > that the money goes to the project. For expenses or to developers, who > spend so much time on this, to spend on whatever they want (beer, fish, > little rubber balls...) But I will not buy things I cannot use. > > Worik > > > > -- > Why is the legal status of chardonnay different to that of cannabis? > [email protected] 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 > Aotearoa (New Zealand) > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which > had a name of signature.asc]
