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<h2>March, 2006</h2> |
<h2>March, 2006</h2> |
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<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm"> |
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OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006 |
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It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too. |
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This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated |
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approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and |
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in general temperature and environmental issues. |
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"There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which |
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supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so |
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on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and |
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other major operating systems." ... |
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De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the |
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machines running in |
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<a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call |
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on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room," |
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<a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm"> |
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Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006 |
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Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet: |
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"A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community". |
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The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD: |
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"The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably |
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superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in |
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ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X. |
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BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal |
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obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return." |
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Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough |
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to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source. |
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"In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple |
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will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses, |
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with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not |
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just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but |
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in open source a little symbolism goes a long way." |
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[GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174"> |
[GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174"> |
OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006 |
OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006 |
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OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the projects |
OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's |
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financial situation. |
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<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm"> |
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OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006 |
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One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below), |
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this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to |
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produce our favorite operating system. |
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"Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many |
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ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals |
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rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay |
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for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting |
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to damage the open source community," he said." |
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OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006 |
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Marco Peereboom's article notes that |
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"OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year. |
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Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out |
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new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run |
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a few of them each year. |
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Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable - |
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that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances |
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have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding |
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to the OpenBSD project. |
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It's time for them to do so. |
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