> 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...
