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OpenBSD 3.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the prickly-pear dept.

Telent writes "OpenBSD 3.1 is out. I've been using a -current snapshot from April as my desktop, and this is truly an amazing release with lots of new PF tricks, improved driver support, and many other cool things. Get it from the master site at ftp.openbsd.org, or use a mirror when possible. Even the release art kicks butt. Enjoy!"

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  1. Re:Fap, fap, fap... by Serial+Troller · · Score: 0, Insightful

    What, these little things? Aren't you glad some trolls don't make their homepage goatse.cx or this particular Japanese pr0n?

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    STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN!

  2. Re:*BSD IS DYING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, your position regarding BSD license is quite acurate, but it is not complete.

    What I mean is that, of course Microsoft can take advantage of BSD licensed code and of course that's what the real programmers of that code had in mind -thus licensing it through BSD.

    What they migth haven't in mind is that this way Microsoft can not only take the code, but take it, make it popular (hey, it's a free implementation supported by a big company, isn't it?) and *then* sligthly modify it so it only really works on the Microsoft (TM) Implementation (TM). That's the way Microsoft works and that's *really* why they love BSD license: it is not because the "gifted code" (it a good gift, yes, but Microsoft has money and programmers enough to do it by itself with not too much pain), but because BSD code, and standards based upon them are controlable by them.
    (Remember RTF, SMB/CIFS, Kerberos... under some conditions, even bind has problems with Windows clients that Windows DNS hasn't).