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OpenBSD 3.7 Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the good-stuff-to-read dept.

busfahrer writes "Jem Matzan has written a review of OpenBSD 3.7 for Newsforge. He talks about their licensing issues, network features, upgrading packages and the new supported architectures."

2 of 197 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Declare your bias, why don't you? by Urkki · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    • You have issues with BSD licensing? How much freeer do you want it?

    Fact 1: BSD license isn't free enough to allow merging in GPLed code.

    Fact 2: GPL isn't free enough to allow merging in BSD licensed code.

    Wether this restriction of freedom is justifiable or not, wether it is unavoidable or not, the fact is that IMHO this is a significant restriction on freedom (both for the programmer and for the code). It forces people to "re-invent the wheel", and therefore it goes against one of the basic motivations and justifications for FOS software.
  2. Re:Mandatory Access Controls? by gowen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    None of those is enabled by default.

    If sendmail were part of the default install, do you really think OpenBSD could claim the security record that it does now.

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