! OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the projects financial situation.
Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on The Business Show:
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+ OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework, 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. + This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated + approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and + in general temperature and environmental issues. + "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which + supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so + on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and + other major operating systems." ... + De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the + machines running in + the project's server room. "I now get a call + on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room," ++ +
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+ Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
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+ Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet: + "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community". + The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD: + "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably + superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in + ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X. + BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal + obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return." + Goes on to argue that these companies ought to be fair enough + to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source. + "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple + will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses, + with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not + just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but + in open source a little symbolism goes a long way." ++ +
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OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf, heise online, March 23, 2006
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+ OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
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+ One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below), + this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to + produce our favorite operating system. + "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many + ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals + rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay + for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting + to damage the open source community," he said." ++ +
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+ OpenBSD Finances, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
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+ Marco Peereboom's article notes that + "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year. + Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out + new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run + a few of them each year. + Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable - + that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances + have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding + to the OpenBSD project. + It's time for them to do so. ++ +
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Report on Business Television
March 10, 5:45pm MST
Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on The Business Show:
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