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  [GERMAN] &quot;We don't do politics, we write software&quot;, c't 13/03, p. 106.
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- Interview with Theo about funding, hackathons, and security in OpenBSD.
+ An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
+ story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
+ hackathon was different from the past ones that had a &quot;mission&quot;,
+ like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
+ year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
+ on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
+ He describes a &quot;very complex and intense climate&quot; and points out
+ that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
+ Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and it's effects - basically
+ that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
+ CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
+ Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD
+ as a &quot;friendly dictator&quot; who is involved in all major
+ decisions.
+ A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
+ secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
+ briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the
+ basics of ProPolice and W^X.
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