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Coverage of the OpenBSD Hackathon

Posted by michael on Wednesday May 21, 2003 @01:20AM from the foreigners dept.

ccparrish writes "'In Calgary until May 20, they belong to an organization known as OpenBSD, a grassroots software movement with historical links to the University of California at Berkeley.'"

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Re:Funny! by TheRaven64 · 2003-05-21 04:34 · Score: 2, Insightful

"It's cheesy now," scoffs de Raadt. "Nothing happens there -- it's just a party."
Am I the only one who has problems with this sentence? Nothing happens, it's a party. Umm, in my world a party counts as something happening...

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Wow no publicity like good publicity by 1nsane0ne · 2003-05-21 05:13 · Score: 4, Insightful

They are also hackers, capable of destroying e-mail accounts and wiping out hard drives with the click of a mouse.

Gee now they can put the whole city of calgary in a panic because the newspaper reporter doesn't understand that these hackers are programmers, not 31337 5kR1pT k1dd135. And plus if they were going to wipe out a hard drive or e-mail account, I doubt there would be a mouse involved. After seeing that bit I'm sure the guys interviewed for the article are real happy. Anyways, just my two pennies.

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Re:Funny! by MeauxToo · 2003-05-21 06:41 · Score: 2, Insightful

The snippet also completely misses the point. The purpose of the OpenBSD hackathon is not to berak into OpenBSD, but to hack out new code and quash bugs.