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Donations


-OpenBSD has no major sponsors -- the project's infancy was funded by a -large cash donation from Theo de Raadt (i.e., "savings"). Those funds -have since dried up, and currently the project is funded by CD and tshirt sales, -as well as generous donations made by various people. -(For more information...) +OpenBSD has no regular wealthy sponsors, nor a serious business model.

+Naturally, the OpenBSD project requires funds to operate, due to +Internet line costs and the same hardware upgrade issues everyone +experiences. For this reason, the project sells CDROMs and T-shirts. +Thus, when you buy an OpenBSD CD or tshirt, whether at a +conference, from any sales site, or from our +CDROM ordering page, you are helping to +increase the chance that OpenBSD will continue to make future releases. +

+It is also possible to donate funds or hardware, +in which case your name ends up on our +Donations page. +

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+Three main ways exist to fund the project with financial donations: + + +
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While donations are not US tax deductible as charitable contribution, they may be deductible as an operating expense, and if someone is so inclined, they should ask for the advice of their accountant. The same applies to other countries, where corporations can make deductible donations under the terms of "Good Will".

+While donations are not US tax deductible as charitable contribution, +they may be deductible as an operating expense, and if someone is so +inclined, they should ask for the advice of their accountant. The +same applies to other countries, where corporations can make deductible +donations under the terms of "Good Will". +

We have a list of hardware that we would like to see donated to the project. We would appreciate it if people would look through the list and compare it to personal or corporate junk piles. @@ -1741,7 +1787,7 @@ OpenBSD www@openbsd.org -
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