Perhaps relevant, Students from the University of Southern Denmark released a paper earlier this month, which once again noted the fact that over ~90% of the OpenBSD base system uses pledge(2). Almost certainly all of the network speaking daemons in base do.
Also in addition to funding the open source projects you use, if you can, please consider directly supporting individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference.
Defending open source should begin with real, tangible support for both the projects and its developers. Not just words.
With my OpenBSD developer hat on, getting new hardware in the hands of developers is really important, many of us are hacking on 5-10 year old thinkpads that need replacing.
The artwork on the store may have been an earlier (non-final) version, or there's just simply multiple variations, which is usually the case for the t-shirt art.
Job Snijders works closely with the artists each release, and runs the store.
I haven't, honestly the application processes, paperwork, project reporting expectations and eligibility criteria for these kind of funds just gives me too much anxiety. I never know how to navigate it as a Canadian either, most of them are US or Europe based.
I guess I'm naive to hold out for the anonymous bitcoin millionaires to donate "no strings" until I find something a bit more frictionless.
Thanks anyway for the suggestion, glad to hear you're getting sponsored for your FreeBSD work.
I'm looking for monthly/yearly "no-strings" sponsors, not employment, if any individuals, companies (or bitcoin millionaires) would like to help a long-time OpenBSD slacker, unslack, I'd really like to focus more of my time on open source development (and advocacy), rather than making rent. Feel free to contact me (see HN bio).
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