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<h2><font color="#e00000">Project Goals</font></h2>
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Obviously, each developer working on OpenBSD has their own aims
and priorities, but it is possible to classify the goals we all share:
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<li>Provide the best development platform possible. <a href="anoncvs.html">
Provide full source access to developers and users, including the
ability to look at CVS tree changes directly</a>.
Users can even look at our source tree and changes
<a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb">directly on the web!</a>
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<li>Integrate good code from any source with <a href="policy.html">acceptable
copyright (ISC or Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable as a last
recourse but not in the kernel, NDA never acceptable)</a>.
We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY
PURPOSE, with no restrictions.
<strong>We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage
companies to use whichever pieces they want to.</strong> There are
<a href="products.html">commercial spin-offs</a> of OpenBSD.
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<li>Pay attention to <a href="security.html">security problems and fix
them before anyone else does</a>. (Try to be the #1 most
secure operating system.)
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<li><a href="crypto.html">Greater integration of cryptographic software.</a>
OpenBSD is developed and released from Canada and due to Canadian
law it is legal to export crypto to the world (as
<a href="http://www.efc.ca/pages/doc/crypto-export.html">
researched by a Canadian individual</a> and as
<a href="http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ECL.html">
documented in the Export Control list of Canada</a>).
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<li>Track and implement standards (ANSI, POSIX, parts of X/Open, etc.)
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<li>Work towards a very machine independent source tree.
<a href="plat.html">Support as many different systems and hardware
as feasible.</a>
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<li>Be as politics-free as possible; solutions should be decided on the
basis of technical merit.
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<li>Focus on being developer-oriented in all senses, including holding
developer-only events called <a href="hackathons.html">hackathons</a>.
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<li>Do not let serious problems sit unsolved.
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<li>Make a CDROM-based release approximately every six months.
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<h2><font color="#e00000">Project Funding</font></h2>
See our <a href="donations.html">Donations Page</a>.
<h2><font color="#e00000">Where do our developers live?</font></h2>
This map approximates where our developers live. We will attempt to update it
occasionally, but please don't count on that.
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