Theo, as far as i am concerned (and most likely the majority of OpenBSD users) there is no need for you to justify yourself (or any other developer) in public. The product (OpenBSD) speeks for itself.
Alf P.S.: To me the sentence about hiking on Wim's page looks like a silly rethoric trick that gives the rest of his text an objectionable taste. On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:11:07PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > So what if it's founder lives a mountain biking/hiking lifestyle? > > There are people being misled that I pay for this extravagant > lifestyle out of donations. Hah. Shame on those people who spread > that rumour, and also shame on those who are so easily deceived. > > I hike near conferences that I am invited to; flights paid for. I > hike near hackathons that I must attend with developers -- hackathons > tend to be near hiking areas but I am not alone in preferring this > (our hackathon locations are otherwise chosen for "cheap accomodation > with free internet2"... perhaps internet2 usage is correleted to good > terrain..). Once a year I pay with my hard earned salary for a trip > to hike somewhere. Then one further time a year I use the reward > points -- from all my other flights and hackathon hotel bills and > developer flights paid with donation money -- to get to another hiking > destination. > > Yes... I have to take time off to do this, but as many of you know > when I get back from a trip I go through all the thousands of mails I > received and the project moves on. And between hikes in a foreign > country I find insecure ways to partially get in touch a bit and some > developers really hate that. I work hard. When I don't hike, and > especially during pre-release times, I sometimes don't get outside for > days at a time except on forced 10km runs. > > Extravagant? No. Just a life choice. > > I have had people accuse me privately of this. I hope others are not > so easily deceived. > > Trust me, with the OpenBSD donations are a loss. Just look at this > page, and estimate the hotel bills: > > http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html > > After you estimate those numbers, where would I find money to spend on > even a slurpee? Gimme a fucking break... Donations help a lot, but > they are not the whole picture. That is why we are so eager -- as a > project -- get the money that Wim has taken from us, because it will > help OpenBSD run more hackathons. The systems code you are running, > almost half of it came from hackathons. > > > If I can give him that and he can continue to provide this wonderful > > product for "free," I'm happy to help him live his lifestyle (even if > > he doesn't play well with others at times). > > It's a deal. > > > It's too bad the project > > doesn't have greater financial backing to allow more development of > > the OS goodness we enjoy--and also allow more "OpenBSD people" to live > > a Theo-like lifestyle, if they so choose. > > Others are trying to do it too, but they are just more quiet about it. > > And then there's the other catagory... the breeders...
