=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/Attic/press.html,v retrieving revision 1.412 retrieving revision 1.413 diff -u -r1.412 -r1.413 --- www/Attic/press.html 2004/10/20 14:24:06 1.412 +++ www/Attic/press.html 2004/10/27 13:12:00 1.413 @@ -623,19 +623,19 @@ story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003 hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission", 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 +year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems. He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done. Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its 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 +Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD as a "friendly dictator" 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 +briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the basics of ProPolice and W^X.

@@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely sympathetic to the American military's current role in world -affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position +affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ... @@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@ Slate, March 3, 2003.
-Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD +Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD surrounding the Bush Administration's recent National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by @@ -2142,11 +2142,11 @@ examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from its source tree altogether. But "code talks, and OpenBSD has spoken quite eloquently in the past", writes Somogyi. Later -on the article he comments on the team's licence audit through +on the article he comments on the team's license audit through the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
-To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the +To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an "unheralded open source success story". @@ -2773,7 +2773,7 @@ In a long-ish article subtitled "For security, scaling, consider a BSD OS", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the -BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project +BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.

@@ -2843,7 +2843,7 @@
Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems -in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist +in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist installations, vi and a default C shell, he finds nice things to say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and the IP filtering and address translation. @@ -4315,7 +4315,7 @@


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