[lugm.org] OpenSSH is in financial trouble

[Loganaden Velvindron]

The t-shirts have little profit margins for OpenBSD.

CD sales finance cvs.openbsd.org (in other words the infrastructure
and theo's salary).

Donation (money) finances the hackathon (for 1 week, openbsd
meet and work on code, this results in burts of activity in cvs logs).

The CD sales are the problem here. Personally I'd much prefer buying
CD Sales, since hackathons are not really an issue for now, even if they
are given away for conf/meetings. However, I understand that most people care about OpenSSH, rather than OpenBSD. I'my trying to find a good
way to get this going. I'll inform you guys as I get the info I need from 
openbsd folks.
 
--- On Wed, 20/4/11, aadil at lavabit.com <aadil at avabit.com> wrote:

From: aadil at lavabit.com <aadil at lavabit.com>
Subject: Re: [lugm.org] OpenSSH is in financial trouble
To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <discuss at lugm.org>
Date: Wednesday, 20 April, 2011, 16:16

Hello,

I  think the LUGM can also donate money, or preferably buy CDs and/or
tshirts to be given away at the incoming Open Source conference.

What do the other members of the committee think?

Yours truly,
Aadil.

> Hi,
>
> OpenSSH could cease to exist. Why ? The OpenBSD CD sales
> are very much less this year. OpenSSH is financed through
> the OpenBSD CD sales.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=130317982728763&w=2
>
> To cut a long story short, if OpenBSD doesn't sell enough
> CDs with the 4.9 release, there WILL be no money for producing
> CDs next year. Part of the CD sales keep Theo de raadt employed
> full-time on openbsd.
>
> CD sales are very important, since OpenBSD is one of the last
> ``true'' open source systems. Instead of doing a commercial/community
> release, there is a single release for everybody.
>
> As such, openbsd requires a constant source of revenue in the form
> of CD sales. The CDs are ~ Rs 1500.00
>
>
> //Logan
> C-x-C-c
>
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