[vidarh]

> If it really was so dire then that would be all the more reason to not rely on a single "superhero" who may get run over by a bus tomorrow.

Which is why he for a couple of years have tried to get corporate sponsors for a foundation to hire more people to work on it, but even that has been met largely with apathy.

> But if $7k/mo are not enough to maintain a package that others have re-implemented for free (openntpd etc.) then something seems seriously wrong.

If you think that's all he does, then you don't understand what he's doing.

You also seem to have missed that $7k also covers all his costs, including hardware replacements and hosting for parts of the servers.