[nycbug-talk] OpenBSD and funding

[Pete Wright]

On 01/15/14 13:57, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Okan Demirmen wrote:

> I am continually shocked at how so many large companies embed
> OpenSSH and can't be bothered to help fund development.  But I
> suppose that was part of the point of the thread - the OpenBSD
> community is small, but everyone knows someone, and that someone may
> work in a shop that buys lots of stuff from some of these
> "freeloading" vendors.  Those people can in turn push their sales
> reps for some explanation as to why absent a requirement to give
> back, they choose not to.  I like this plan.  Everyone needs to
> spread word of this situation to people in their tech universe.
> 
> Charles


i think that's a great approach there!  by asking them in this way
hopefully it will cause some of these vendors (large and small) to think
about this important aspect of the OSS ecosystem.

-pete


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