Quoting Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>:
I would like to say only this: if people to not want big companies meddling with OpenBSD as it has been happening with Linux better its users support it.I said this in 2006: "I think that contributions should have come first from the vendors, secondly from the corporate users, and thirdly from individual users. But the response has been almost entirely the opposite, with almost a 15 to 1 dollar ratio in favor of the little people. Thanks a lot, little people!" As a non-director, I do not have any more insight into the current ratios of contributions to the Foundation, other than their annual financials which anyone can find. However I suspect it would take many years of big company money to move that ratio forward from a 20 year pattern... However you used a specific word that bothers me. Honestly, I don't see proof of any meddling, if I saw it, I would care deeply about it. You'll have to be significantly more detailed before raising what might appear as an allegation, supposition that it might occur in the future is simply not enough. Even your tiny hint is an attack on our character. I am not going to take that lightly.
It's not about OpenBSD or its people, it's about Microsoft, I think that what happened to Nokia is a good example of that.
I stopped following Microsoft in detail when I switched to Linux many years ago so I have no concrete and recent example about that, but one thing I remember is Microsoft threatening Linux users and companies about patents and IP, then SuSE entering into agreements with Microsoft to not be sued. I prefer to not opine whether if was good for SuSE its relationship with Microsoft, but I highly disliked Microsoft playing the patent troll with the Linux community. I personally think there is very little good about Microsoft besides its money.
So I think and hope that OpenBSD people will keep doing the good job they have been doing. If not, well, there are other OSes out there, no need to make accusations or throw a tantrum about it.
-- Best regards, Jorge Lopez. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
