Re: donated, kindly acknowledge

On 18/07/06, Shahvez Fazail <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> I donated via [email protected] but never acknowledged.
>
> Can you please acknowledge me here
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
>
> Dubai Villas and Apartments linking to http://www.dubaiapartments.biz
>
> Thanks
>

Donations have to be donations only. There is a law on that.

On 03/07/06, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, but we cannot do that.  Donations do not entitle people to a
> reference to anything they want.  We know how google works too, and if
> we allow a "donation" to mean "please give us advertising, so that we
> rise in google's page rank algorithm, and do not get punished so
> badly".  Doing it like that would be business, and our donations are
> donations, not business.
>
> I am sorry.