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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">
   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.
   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
   <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
   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">
   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:
   "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 <em>ought</em> 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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 [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
 financial situation.  financial situation.
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   <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
   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),
   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</a>, 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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