Hello everyone, Recently I wrote an email to Theo about this idea I had to help fund OpenBSD. I never got a reply back, so either he found it very stupid and refrained himself from flaming me (that's probably not it) or something else happened.
Anyways the point is I taught (and still think) it's a good idea, so I'd like to know what people on the list think about it. My idea is the following: The mozilla foundation now makes a boat load of money by shipping firefox with a default search page set to google (http://www.google.ca/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official for my installed version). Mozilla simply gets a percentage of the ad money generated by the searches that originate from that page. Since google seem reasonably friendly to OpenBSD (I remember a large donation from google) wouldn't it be possible to have an OpenBSD-google search page where part of the profits generated are given to OpenBSD? The way I see it it's 'free' money for the project in the sense that it doesn't cost the devs OR the users anything. Am I the only one who would use such a page (and force it on every other computer in thehouse :) )? Feel free to flame me if you think it's a ridiculous idea...but I still think it's a damn good idea... Jd
