+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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+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 is touching its savings - Small news article about the projects +OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's financial situation.
+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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+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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Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on The Business Show:
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