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OpenBSD Meets The Cat License Sketch [updated]
Ash'aman writes "The OpenBSD crew have just posted lyrics and illustrations for the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.5. Included is a hillarious parody of the Monty Python 'cat license' sketch with respect to their battle against software patents over redundancy protocols. Check it out here." The sketch is ready; the software is listed with a May 1st release date. As several Monty Python fans have pointed out, the original sketch is officially called the fish license sketch; the cat just comes earlier in the script.
And I know it is flamebait to some, but I think the best part is that it is actually free, rather than free as defined by the Free Software Foundation.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Have you actually checked out what OpenBSD has been doing instead of blindly ranting about it? Go ahead and click the link http://www.openbsd.org/35.html
Notable additions (besides CARP)
BGP4 daemon, unmatched by any other free routing software
pfsync to share firewall states across multiple boxen (goes along with CARP)
amd64 support with on-chip W^X
Security improvements for malloc
Several more daemons run with privilege separation
Support for native AES instructions on some VIA C3 CPUs (accelerated crypto)
Far from being dead, several network equipment vendors are using OpenBSD as a platform for their software, such as SourceFire and nCircle.
The difference is that OpenBSD tries to be an OS for professionals and do things that replace commercial products from companies like Cisco. While the average home user doesn't give a crap (oooh, we want accelerated 3D!) many professionals do (BGP routing, HighAvailability firewalls, professional grade documentation, secure configuration by default, etc).
Oh and buy the way, SMP is actually in CVS and you can actually use it; it's just not part of the 3.5 release.
Someone is WRONG on the Internet!