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FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - Saturday February 26, 2005. At the award ceremony for the 2004 Advancement of Free Software.
FSF President and founder, Richard Stallman, presents this years award to Theo de Raadt.
For recognition as founder and project leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. Theo de Raadt's work has also led to significant contributions to GNU/Linux and other BSD distributions. Of particular note is Theo's work on OpenSSH. Theo's leadership of OpenBSD, his selfless commitment to Free Software and his advancement of network security, were sighted by this years award committee.
Congratulations Theo!
Read the full announcement. Second update: Wim finally sobered up and uploaded new videos of the ceremony with RMS and Theo.
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By Michael Knudsen (217.157.199.114) on
Thanks to everyone who submitted this, and Bob for complaining that we were slower than slashdot. :)
We knew about this in advance and held it back because we were hoping to provide links to pictures and video of the event, but we will update the story later once Wim sobers up.
Once again, congratulations to Theo and the rest of the team!
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By Bob Beck (68.148.128.240) beck@openbsd.org on
I was right about the editors being drunk in a gutter at FOSDEM I see.
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By Marc Espie (62.212.102.210) espie@openbsd.org on
By mirabile (212.185.103.56) on http://mirbsd.de/
Especially if you're hanging around Wim.
By Wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on http://eurobsd.org/
It's two days after the event and I'm already standing up (Wel, I have to clean up after the armagedon that passed through the house here)
Wim.
By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on
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By Noryungi (82.123.104.11) on
Please read the FSF announcement before posting: OpenSSH is specifically mentioned as one of the significant contribution of the OpenBSD, and especially Theo de Raadt, to "free" software.
I don't think the FSF is annoyed at the "market share" of OpenSSH: on the contrary, they are happy to have a free implementation of SSH. Just thought I'd mention that.
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By Michael Knudsen (217.157.199.114) on
> I don't think the FSF is annoyed at the "market share" of
> OpenSSH: on the contrary, they are happy to have a free
> implementation of SSH. Just thought I'd mention that.
They've got their own implementation.
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By Noryungi (82.123.247.250) on
True, the FSF has its own GPL implementation... which is used by how many people? 1%? 5%? In any case, a much smaller user base than either (commercial) SSH and OpenSSH.
Don't misunderstand me: I am all for free software, and more power to the FSF for creating lsh. It's just that, in that particular case, OpenSSH is clearly the superior implementation, both in terms of functionalities and user base (I don't like the term "market share" when it comes to free software).
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By Michael Knudsen (217.157.199.114) on
Everyone likes their software to be used. I doubt very much they are satisfied with a 1% market share.
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to the Project.
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By Anonymous Coward (203.20.79.132) on
The GPL is so huge it has a table of contents! It's a great wad of legalese and you think you can sum it up with "do anything but change the license"?
Have you read it? It is VERY restrictive and puts the bias of freedom towards the community and away from the code.
BSD code is free code.
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By Aasmund Midttun Godal (80.202.218.120) on
I agree. However all the text is pretty straight forward even for laymen.
- and you think you can sum it up with "do anything but change the license"?
Yes. If you like i can add "of the modified distributed result", but really what I said sums up the license pretty fairly IMHO. The whole point of GPL is to make sure that the software itself and anything based upon it stays open source and free as in beer forever.
- Have you read it?
Yes, ofcourse.
- It is VERY restrictive and puts the bias of freedom towards the community and away from the code.
Don't really understand what you mean.
- BSD code is free code.
I agree if you say more free ;)
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By Anonymous Coward (198.152.150.67) on
Don't really understand what you mean.
I'm pretty sure that it means he's more concerned about the freedom of code than he is about the freedom of the community.
Which sums up the attitude of the BSD Licence zealots better than just about anything else I have ever read.
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By Anonymous Coward (59.167.252.29) on
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> Don't really understand what you mean.
>
> I'm pretty sure that it means he's more concerned about the freedom of code than he is about the freedom of the community.
>
> Which sums up the attitude of the BSD Licence zealots better than just about anything else I have ever read.
"the community" there, is the GNU community, the free code the BSD provides is free for all, for any purpose. That is true freedom.
GPL "freedom" comes with strings attached. True freedom does not have strings attached.
By Matt (67.70.197.65) on
I sincerely hope this is a step towards reconciliation between the BSD and the GPL license people. Why would one flavour of freedom attack another? It's like the Protestants and the Catholics killing each other in Ireland while the Church of Satan stands on the sidelines and laughs... I'll leave it to your imagination who the CoS is in this example.
Anyway, congratulations again.
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By Nate (65.95.241.237) on
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By Noryungi (82.123.247.250) on
I know! I know! It's the PostGreSQL team! Do I win something? *ducks*
(Besides the Church of Satan is nothing but a bunch of poseurs. Try Scientology for a truly evil cult)
Also, I don't think there is a 'fight' between the GPL/Linux crowd and the *BSD crowd. OpenBSD has a very specific stance on the GPL, which has led it to reject many GPL-licensed software for the core OpenBSD system, but that does not mean they 'hate' the GPL. AFAIK, many programs available in the OpenBSD packages are licensed under the GPL.
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By Anonymous Coward (80.219.121.189) on
Ihanks for the tip! Been looking all over the net for ages...
will try ASAP and post my results!
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http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html
By Anthony (68.145.112.234) on
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It's sort of like a transparent bittorrent, and very cool. You can read more about it (it's just in a beta stage at the moment) here: http://www.coralcdn.org
Oh, and to keep this somewhat topical to OpenBSD, one of the CORAL developers was also an OpenBSD developer at one point, namely David Mazières (and I'm sure he's also responsible for OpenBSD being used as a partial basis within xok back in the day as he worked on that as well).
Oh, the Coralized links are:
http://eurobsd.org.nyud.net:8090/20050225-fosdem/20050226-FOSDEM.avi (20.9M)
http://eurobsd.org.nyud.net:8090/20050225-fosdem/20050228-dicking-around-with-MirBSD-dv.mov(895M!!)
http://eurobsd.org.nyud.net:8090/20050225-fosdem/20050228-dicking-around-with-MirBSD.avi(35.1M)
http://eurobsd.org.nyud.net:8090/20050225-fosdem/20050228-dicking-around-with-MirBSD.mov(19.6M)