<story><title>Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20150708134520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Gold: $25,000 to $50,000
        Microsoft Corporation 
    Silver: $10,000 to $25,000
        Facebook Inc.
        Google Inc.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Arguably these are small amounts for all three companies, but what is the best way to calculate a fair share - not just for large companies but for anyone? For example,&lt;p&gt;* How much does OpenBSD need?&lt;p&gt;* How much does each company benefit from OpenBSD&amp;#x27;s work?&lt;p&gt;* How much would it cost to license the software if it were proprietary? How much would it cost to build and maintain it in-house?</text></item><item><author>Systemic33</author><text>Worth noting that Facebook and Google are both silver contributors.&lt;p&gt;=== &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;contributors.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;contributors.html&lt;/a&gt; ===&lt;p&gt;For 2015 The OpenBSD Foundation will recognize donors in the following categories based on contribution amount.&lt;p&gt;On request we will provide a link to your website for donations of $5000 or more, and display your logo for donations of $10,000 or more.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Iridium: $100,000 to $250,000
    Platinum: $50,000 to $100,000
    Gold: $25,000 to $50,000
        Microsoft Corporation 
    Silver: $10,000 to $25,000
        Facebook Inc.
        Google Inc. 
    Bronze: $5,000 to $10,000
        2Keys Security Solutions
        Mandrill
        genua mbh &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
=============================================</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seiji</author><text>Those are hilariously small numbers.  The accounting departments of those companies probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t even blink if one extra zero were added to the end.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re funding open source products like this, companies should fund at least 3-5 full time senior engineer salaries per year.  We should praise &amp;quot;donating&amp;quot; $3 million to $10 million per year.  Anything less is a joke seeing these amounts are from multi-billion dollar companies &lt;i&gt;built on&lt;/i&gt; free software.&lt;p&gt;Imagine you lived next to a free buffet that only accepted donations.  You ate there every day of the year, saved thousands of dollars over buying and making your own food, then thought you were being &amp;quot;generous&amp;quot; by dropping them a tenner at Christmas.  Also, you&amp;#x27;re a full time tech employee who cashed out millions in stock and have several million dollar apartments in cities around the world.  But, sure, you&amp;#x27;re generous by dropping them $10.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20150708134520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Gold: $25,000 to $50,000
        Microsoft Corporation 
    Silver: $10,000 to $25,000
        Facebook Inc.
        Google Inc.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Arguably these are small amounts for all three companies, but what is the best way to calculate a fair share - not just for large companies but for anyone? For example,&lt;p&gt;* How much does OpenBSD need?&lt;p&gt;* How much does each company benefit from OpenBSD&amp;#x27;s work?&lt;p&gt;* How much would it cost to license the software if it were proprietary? How much would it cost to build and maintain it in-house?</text></item><item><author>Systemic33</author><text>Worth noting that Facebook and Google are both silver contributors.&lt;p&gt;=== &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;contributors.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;contributors.html&lt;/a&gt; ===&lt;p&gt;For 2015 The OpenBSD Foundation will recognize donors in the following categories based on contribution amount.&lt;p&gt;On request we will provide a link to your website for donations of $5000 or more, and display your logo for donations of $10,000 or more.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Iridium: $100,000 to $250,000
    Platinum: $50,000 to $100,000
    Gold: $25,000 to $50,000
        Microsoft Corporation 
    Silver: $10,000 to $25,000
        Facebook Inc.
        Google Inc. 
    Bronze: $5,000 to $10,000
        2Keys Security Solutions
        Mandrill
        genua mbh &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
=============================================</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alecco</author><text>Tiny amounts. The OpenBSD folks contribute a lot of code those corporations use, like OpenSSH and plenty of security bugs fixed for many projects not their own.&lt;p&gt;OpenBSD still is at a financial crisis and not enough people care. Not even the ones reaping benefits out of it.</text></comment>