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Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall
New submitter MrBingoBoingo writes "Recently it was announced here on Slashdot that OpenBSD was facing an impending shortfall that jeopardized its continued existence. A sponsorship to save OpenBSD has been announced, and it wasn't one of the usual culprits that saved OpenBSD, but a Romanian Bitcoin billionaire."
This assumes that 20,000$ worth of bitcoins can be converted to real money.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
In other words, a Romanian gypsy stepped in. Except gypsies quite smart really and trade in actual resources, so bitcoins would be beneath gypsies.
So FreeBSD which isn't associated with malcoins per se and is used in the PS4 vs. OpenBSD which is now smeared and tainted with btc's. Hmm, let me think:
FreeBSD!
.... he's not going to want the attention, lest he get kidnapped.
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Interesting....
I hope it works out for OpenBSD, but the proof is in the pudding.... or the check clearing.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
How about we be a little more careful with twitter links, K?
Help stamp out iliturcy.
He sells futures, which he refuses to honor if he loses.
He steals from people.
OpenBSD should refuse his donation, the funds are the proceeds of crime.
A bitcoin story with .. ah, who cares with what - IT IS BITCOIN AND IT HAS SAVED THE DAY !!
The Dogecoin community wants to help the Jamaican bobsleigh team get to Sochi, and there is a donation up! http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1virfc/lets_send_the_jamaican_bobsled_team_to_the_winter/ I hope we will see a lot more of this in the coming years, people who have earned big on cryptocurrency and who ends up helping others with some of their earnings.
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That sort of an electrical bill is a crap explanation in my opinion to support the development and deployment of OpenBSD developers and users.
Poor management is more likely the explanation.
I mean, for example to not watch the cash flow, and all of a sudden require a huge cash intake is something I don't understand.
This sort of problem should have been apparent YEARS AGO, anyone managing the infrastructure could have seen coming and there should have been PLENTY of time to correct the issue.
Am I missing something here people if so please do explain.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Before you accept anything from this criminal, make sure you read bitcointalk.
This guy is a bad news.
Is OpenBSD really sure they want to be associate with this guy? I hope not.
Seriously, you people are nuts. Bitcoin was bad enough, now any half-wit with a web browser can go create "currencies".
It's going to be hilarious seeing the inevitable fall and a bunch of dumbfounded dipshits standing around saying "whu happened?!"
And yes, I know some people have made real money. I hear pyramid schemes often start out that way.
I was going to post about nobody using BSD... but... there is that one guy in Romania... Hmmm... But there is still that question... Is this even newsworthy...? Check this out... http://aboutthebsds.wordpress.com/ o_p
Mircea Popescu is very nice person, thank you for saving OpenBSD. Now, why are some a-holes here bouthmouthing one person that did something to help OpenBSD's problem?! And jumping to conclusions and all. Jesus Christ that will teach any future milionares to sponsor FOSS.
Here, here. Where was Tim Cook? Where was Steve Wozniak? WHere was the Oracle douche Ellison? Missing. What was here for the Open Source Movement? An mysterious Bitcoin Billionaire who likes young women nude in public.
Popescu is a scumbag and a thieve. I hope OpenBSD has some balls not to accept this money.
I'm sure you'll fit in here just fine. Has anyone told you what happened to John Katz yet? Oh, yeah. We Don't Talk About That.
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You know most man like young women. More NEWS AT 11: most man like sex and many like beer. But keep on being hater, instead appreciating donations.
I never meant that as a negative.
What does it mean to be a bitcoin billionaire?
To own a billion bitcoins? Since there will never be more than about 21 million bitcoins, by design, this is obviously not meant.
Maybe he owns a billion satoshi? Well, a satoshi is 10^-8 bitcoins, therefore a billion bitcoins is 10 bitcoin. That's about $10000, if I'm not mistaken. Which certainly is not nothing, but also not an extraordinary large number.
You hear with your ears. The exclamation is 'Hear, hear!"
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Not if you are Cockney.
Wouldn't it have been so much better if it were "A Bulgarian Bitcoin Billionaire"
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Here, here.
Where was Tim Cook? Where was Steve Wozniak? WHere was the Oracle douche Ellison? .
Fuck that, where was Steve Jobs!
Watch this Heartland Institute video
At least he has a better excuse than the rest.
Actually he is correct - shovinistic is based on the Hebrew word Shova which means intolerant. AFAIK the etymology of Chauvinist is not related it to this, it is just a weird coincidence that they sound the same.
Just because someone uses a word you do not know which sounds like a word you DO know, does not mean they spelt it wrong.
Do you feel embarrassed now that you've been humiliated in front of those of us more educated than yourself, who you previously considered as peers but now realise that we are actually your superiors?
I am very glad to see these projects funded. I like a diverse ecosystem of operating systems and ideas as opposed to a homogeneous realm of only one flavor of GNU/Linux or BSD. The more things being tried, the better. Despite the bitterness expressed here with the OpenBSD team and the way they run things, I admire their dedication. They produce some lovely stuff like OpenSSH. I am not a fan of Godaddy, but was pleased even they sent a cheque for development of OpenSSH. It is a worthwhile goal. The more operating operating systems out there, the better. Especially ones focused on security. My understanding is some hospital and other critical infrastructure use OpenBSD.
"SO we bide our time, waiting for a purer kick to bloom and the future is still bleak, uncertain and beautiful" -GSYBE
There might be something we're not being told about this transaction.
From what I understand, the build servers are absolutely archaic beasts that had they been replaced long ago would not have led to such astronomically high bills. /p>
There are a variety of of build serves. There are ones for SPARC (and SPARC64), MacPPC, SGI/MIPS, VAX, etc.:
http://openbsd.org/plat.html
One of the reasons why this is done is help expose bugs. Some issues are only exposed on non-mainstream architectures, and if everyone only uses certain CPUs, then they won't be found (as easily). Back in the early 1990s, not many people used DEC Alpha, but by supporting it (both in the BSD and Linux world), it kept kernel developers "honest" when it came to supporting things besides 32-bit Intel. When AMD64 came along (and then Intel's uptake of it), the code was a lot cleaner and able to better support it with a minimal of fuss (Linus has himself so stated).
Similarly if you supported RISC-y processors like 68K, MIPS, and SPARC, you would be better prepared for when ARM came along in the mainstream. Similarly support for big- and little-endian CPUs, and CPUs that are bi-endian, keeps kernel folks honest for things like alignment issues.
This is why I also think that userland developers should developers should try running their software on non-Linux systems in at least a perfunctory fashion. When Debian made the switch from Bash to dash for /bin/sh it broken a lot of things. If developers had tried some simply tests of their software on (say) a BSD, they would have learned quite quickly that they had used Bash-ism and needed to either change their code, or simply explicitly used a shebang of /bin/bash.
The computer world is not homegenous, and any developer (kernel or userland) who thinks otherwise limits themselves unnecessary and is asking for pain when their assumptions are proven false when reality changes (like the rise of amd64 and ARM, and with Debian's change of /bin/sh).
Digital Money may not be popular but there is money in it!
Your sentiment is quite correct. I should have made it more explicit that I know nothing of Popescu except that he has made this generous donation to a worthy project, and my assumption was purely for the sake of argument.
That said I should also say I know absolutely nothing about his "niceness" either, the quality appears to have no particular correlation with either generosity or alleged criminal behavior.
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
But then wouldn't it be " 'ear, 'ear", or should that be " 'ere, 'ere"?
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
any proof that this isn't just someone typing into IRC?
where is the announcement from Theo?
Till this is confirmed by Theo, this is nothing more than rumour, which might actually harm the project.
Mircea Popescu a billionaire? Guys, this guy is lying about everything for at least 8 years. He spreads false rumors all the time. At least this was a good joke.
I'm in this branch for about 10 years and until last year I did support a FreeBSD running Apache and being used to host a site. So I was that lucky?
Curiously yours, crip.
Dude 20K is 20-40 bitcoins. That gets sold every few minutes on the exchanges. How about you remove your head from your colon long enough to have a look around?
Please just let it die so those programmers can focus their efforts on something more relevant.
Lol
until you realize none of that is getting physically paid out. The USD sits in mtgox forever, because they literally can't get it paid out. You'd have to be retarded to miss that fact.
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