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OpenBSD Foundation Announced
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.""
s/check-it-out dept./spell-check-it dept./
Rome wasn't bilked in a day.
Yep, cause this license ain't free enough and, besides, we don't want anything that is better than CVS.
You're a codin' machine Theo, but I wish you could learn to play well with others.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I wonder what Theo will say about all this? 9 times out of 10 he tends to scorn things, so I wonder if he'll embrace this with open arms, or just shun it like he does most things.
Either way i'm happy. At least there's even more support for open source software and anything non-windows related.
ilovegeorgebush
'Accounced' is an openBSD style announcement - one that can be held accountable
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I was accounced once. It's on my permanent record.
Another time I accounced my neighbours dog for barking while I was trying to sleep. I used a teaspoon. It was fun.
Slashdot is according to Google already the Nr. 2 Source for accouncing!
BSD is ACCOUNCED!
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
Most governments are actually pretty good systems, and in theory they work, the reason countries got ruined by communism was corruption, a less corrupt system would have succeeded, and I think we'll soon find countries like Afganistan abusing democracy to become a theocracy and it'll be just as bad.
Yes, that's great. But... does it actually have drivers for modern hardware?
I very much doubt that. I suspect that what your country was in the shadow of was Stalinism. Just because the nice American man said you were living under communism doesn't mean anything as Americans generally can not tell the difference between Communism, Stalinism, and Socialism (and assume they're all Stalinism).
Communism, like capitalism, is based on a model of the world which only works if everyone acts in exactly the way the inventor of the model thought they should. Neither work in reality; both need socialist elements to prevent them turning into a nightmare for all but the top 500 or so people in a country.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Greenrd's Law.
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There are no bad guys, and there is no contest to be won or lost. Why do so many slashtards try to push their irrational FUD on to open source projects? If you want to win something then go compete at something. The OpenBSD team is just making an OS they like because they like it. There's no way to lose at that.
I think this is great. Now it should be easier to see just how well the three *bsd camps are doing. FreeBSD has a list of donors on it's foundation web site. Heck, you can get listed for a $1-$19 donation. Sounds like they took a page from the OpenBSD folks, who would list donors on their web site and printed your name in the instructions with the CD for each release until there got to be too many. Now it is just on the web.
But look at the overhead! NetBSD listed $10k in donations for 2006 and $2k in legal fees, while FreeBSD listed $87k in donations and $54k in payroll expenses. What! Does it take a full time person to collect $150k in donations in 6 months?
On the other hand, OpenBSD prides itself in being run by volunteers, so I think it should have lower overhead. We will see, how the three compare in getting the dollars. My money is going to OpenBSD.
Congratulations! That's the way to go. This should have done long time ago. Nobody wants to donate/contribute to individuals. Good luck and best wishes. - Sagara
not-for-profit was being used long before the US invaded Iraq the first time. Each State in the USA and each Country has it's own laws and names for non-profits. Some even have both not-for-profits and non-profits and there is a slight difference between the two. "non-profit" is a good generic term, but if you are going by what is actually filed, it may be one or the other.
I'm sure there are enough OpenBSD stories to open an OpenBSD section with the respective OpenBSD logo Puffy instead of FreeBSD's Beastie
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
Don't they realize that by establishing a Canadian foundation, they're aligning themselves with the greatest piracy threat against the MAFIAA members' intellectual property? Everyone knows OSS is all about piracy and cracking, and basing it in Canada increases that threat!
From their Donations page:
If it's so stinking hard to do in Canada, maybe they should have done it in the US. You know, where there are a lot more people and large companies who might like a tax deduction for their donation?
If my mom can run a non-profit 501(c)(3) in the US and get all the paperwork done, anyone should be able to. But these BSD folks never seem to manage it.
The preferred solution is to not have a problem.
If so, you can pretty much forget about it making a difference.
While i respect him greatly for his technical abilities, as a marketing guy he sucks wind. His political views get in the way every time. ( and his abrasive personality does not help much either )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
That and they are a financial magazine and not a tech one....one article I read they said there were only 3 different kinds of BSD!
There is more to science than physics!
www.iomalfunction.blogspot.com
how can a specific OS test be compared with tests for other OS'es ... file perms, etc
... group policy does seem a lot more complicated to me than Unix's albeit simple user-group-world file permissions
they have created multiple tests for various platforms but that's not the point
on your pic, i see PART 1 Service Packs and hotfixes, again this is something windows specific after that
we go on and see registry permissions and file and registry auditing again this is mostly windows only
the rest do seem to be platform independant
but still you'll have to substract at least 12000 points from that score to be somewhat viable in comparison
but let's not get over our heads, most server based os'es can be hardened a lot whether it's NT based or Unix based.
and i must thank you for the 12 simple steps link since i'm about to reinstall and secure my sister's xp machine
the point with me is and yes i've surfed technet a lot
another important thing you're forgetting is that you ABSOLUTELY seem to thrust cisecurity.org
this is a bad idea since you're putting your faith into this one particular security group
to a lot of slashdotters this practice is viewed as stupid and that site is nothing other than yet another overzealous, we are the holy grail of security, security group with a public site
those sites are everywhere on the net
I don't use OpenBSD at home (as mentioned, its niche is in firewalls and routers), but I think it's one of the most underrated and well-designed OSes in the history of modern computing. Theo de Raadt, abrasive as he is, is something like a thinner, paranoid RMS who showers once in a while, and I say that with only the best intentions. Like RMS, he may be hard to get along with, but he's nearly always right. Theo, if you're reading this, good luck!
~Eien no Inori wo Sasagete~ Searching for my Hatsumi...
Organisations that handle lots of money tend to attract people who look for a job or opportunities for personal gain and have no interest in its original mission. Considering that the founding members will sometime retire or leave, how can a foundation ensure that its original culture and focus on its mission will pass on to all new members within generations? I always regarded this as a disadvantage of formal organisations. I am not saying this specifically for OpenBSD (which I highly respect), but I am just raising a point for discussion.
true there is no such thing as a good/perfect system. hybrids are the way to go