OpenBSD: Software Freedom
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| OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt highlighted a recent commit to the NetBSD
| source tree saying, "if anyone had any doubt that our insistence on freedom
| was important, just read this." The referenced commit message describes an
| effort to work around issues with a binary blob included with NetBSD,
| something strongly avoided by the OpenBSD project. The commit message states:
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/14229
Related:
OpenBSD Founder Theo deRaadt Has Conflict of Interest With AMD
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| I formerly had a great deal of respect, bordering on admiration, for Theo
| deRaadt's refusals to compromise his open source principles, even in the face
| of stiff opposition. Although he has occasionally gone over-the-top,
| recommended some frankly very dubious changes to OpenBSD, and is regularly
| arrogant (which is even more annoying because he's so often right!), he's
| always remained consistent in his devotion to the cause of GNU/Free Software.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/8/2/15233/84896
OpenBSD founder: Intel leaves open-source out in the cold
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| He accused Intel of understating the impact of the bugs “very significantly”
| and cautioned OS developers that they will most certainly run into these
| bugs.
|
| [...]
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| “All of this is just unbelievable to many of us,” he declared.
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| de Raadt said he cannot recommend the purchase of any machines based on the
| Intel Core 2 until these issues are dealt with.
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| “Intel must be come more transparent,” he said, noting that rival AMD isn’t
| much better.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=336#7851462737160269475
Intel: Only "Open" for Business
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| These vendors often want a quiet private discussion, because in a
| quiet private discussion they can continue to dismiss the requests and in
| the end do absolutely nothing. They do not want a noisy public
| discussion, because then they look bad. But they DESERVE TO LOOK BAD,
| because they are being bad to those who bought their hardware!
|
| [...]
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| By withholding, Intel is being an Open Source fraud.
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| [...]
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| So let's win back the rights to run the hardware we purchased.
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| Please feel free to let other open source communities know about this
| matter. Thank you.
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded
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