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Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released
Eh-Wire writes "Theo has announced the release of the lyrics to the OpenBSD 3.7 song "The Wizard of OS". Theo writes in the announcement, "Please be sure read the commentary I have written next to the lyrics of the song. The artwork and lyrics for each of our releases relate to something big we have been dealing with over the last 6 months of the release -- our fight to get programming documentation and redistributable firmwares.""
Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in Redmond largely continues their practices because they get the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free development information for all, but are even going further and telling their development communities to not work with us at pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
Can someone explicitly corroborate or refute this statement? If that's true, that's pretty low.
Somewhat of off-topic, but did anyone else catch a mention of OpenBSD in a late issue of Forbes magazine? (Url is hnya).,
in the context of a young enterpreuner selling wifi access point / firewall combos, hoping to compete with Cisco? Granted OpenBSD was mentioned once [as opposed to a whole centerfold and a cover story they had on Linux several years ago], but it's still not bad for a mainstream publication.
I'd pry my eyeballs out, but I don't want that to be the last image that crossed my retinas.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?