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OpenBSD Foundation Announced

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

OpenBDSfan writes "KernelTrap is reporting on the creation of the OpenBSD Foundation, a Canadian not-for-profit corporation intended to support OpenBSD and related projects, including OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS. The announcement explains, "the OpenBSD Foundation will initially concentrate on facilitating larger donations of equipment, funds, documentation and resources. Small scale donations should continue to be submitted through the existing mechanisms.""

3 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Interesting by Noryungi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given the fact that it was stated by Bob Beck, a member of the OpenBSD programming teams, I think he will be OK with it.

    Besides, the OpenBSD Foundation stated very clearly that it will focus on large donations (of funds, hardware, etc) and that small donations should be sent directly to OpenBSD through the usual channels. RTFA and all that.

    I do think Theo will be A-OK with that.

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    The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
  2. Re:OpenCVS? by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It works either way. And if you're auditing it twice, that might be more secure.

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    It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
  3. Re:OpenCVS? by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've worked with CVS. It's limitations are why OpenBSD exists: Theo de Raadt was kicked off of the CVS commit list for NetBSD, with excellent cause, andn this left him unable to gracefully publish his own fork for others to review or integrate.

    Almost every other major source control system would have allowed him to maintain his own fork and publish it, keeping his software synced with or development integrated with the main source tree: Bitkeeper, git, Subversion, Perforce, etc. CVS fails this task pretty seriously.