> http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/OpenBSD_needs_a_major_donor > http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/21/1555243 > > No one seems to care (unless donations have shot up and Theo, et. al. > haven't mentioned it)
>From what I see, we have received a mini flood of donations, which means there will soon be a drought. It is already slowing down a lot. In the end, it will not be enough, unless there is another "funding drive" just like this in another 6 months. If I can try to estimate the situation, having seen how it works before.. hold onto your seats, this is confusing: In the end, 50% of what we have gotten we would have received anyways from nice donators over the coming 6 months. So we will have received about twice as much as normal, but just sooner. Of course, since this rush was driven by a press deluge on this issue (just check news.google), people will very quickly forget, and not wish to help us again quite as soon. As I said, it is already slowing down. There are a finite number of people who can be reached directly via even these information forums... These donations from individuals are really great. The community is great. Thanks a lot. But we know this is the wrong way to fund OpenBSD, OpenSSH, and our other subprojects in the long term, and that the Unix (and maybe even Linux) vendors who ship OpenSSH in their products should be helping with at least a few pennies of the millions and millions of dollars we have saved them. How many vendors are shipping another SSH implimentation? Therefore Damien and I have just sent these two mails to a few mailing lists: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=114316163313701&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=114316224627520&w=2 I suspect that conversation is not over.
