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<h2><font color=#0000e0>Project Goals</font></h2>

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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 change directly</a>.
	Users can even look at our source tree and changes
	<a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb>directly on the web!</a>
<li>Integrate good code from any source with <a href=policy.html>acceptable
	copyright (Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable, NDA not)</a>.
	We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY
	PURPOSE, with no restrictions.
<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).
<li><a href=crypto.html>Greater integration of cryptographic software.</a>
	This means IPsec, IPv6, key engines, Kerberos, free-AFS,
	and other forms of strong crypto or crypto-using systems.
	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://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/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>).
	OpenBSD developers are doing active research and development on
	IPSEC and the
	<a href=http://wserver.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/photuris/>
	Photuris key engine</a>.
<li>Track and implement standards (ANSI, POSIX, parts of X/Open, etc.)
<li>Work towards a very machine independent source tree.
	<a href=plat.html>Support as many different systems and hardware
	as feasible.</a>
<li>Be as politics-free as possible; solutions should be decided on the
	basis of technical merit.
<li>Do not let serious problems sit unsolved.
<li>Provide a good cross compile/development platform.
<li>Import external packages with minimal modifications - making upgrading
	much easier. Also to submit back to the developers any changes made.
<li><strong><a href=orders.html>Make a CDROM-based release approximately
	every six months</a>, in particular to fund the project...</strong>
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<h2><font color=#0000e0>Project Funding</font></h2>

Naturally, the OpenBSD project requires funds to operate, due to
internet line costs and the same hardware upgrade issues everyone
experiences.  For this reason, the project sells CDROMs of our most
recent release.  Thus, when you buy an OpenBSD CD, whether at a
conference, from one of our other locations, or from our
<a href=orders.html> CDROM ordering page</a>, you are helping to
increase the chance that OpenBSD will make future releases.

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It is also possible to donate funds or hardware, in which case your
name ends up on our <a href=donations.html>Donations page</a>.
For more information on this contact
<a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a> or simply send a
donation cheque in Canadian or US funds to:<p>

OpenBSD<br>
812 23rd Ave SE<br>
Calgary, Alberta<br>
Canada<br>
T2G 1N8<br>
(Make the cheque out to "Theo de Raadt", since I cannot cash cheques made
out to "OpenBSD".)<br>

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Theo de Raadt has spent more than $30,000 (CDN) to make OpenBSD run so
far, mostly due to expensive networking costs in Canada and such (due
to USA crypto policies, it is not possible to move the project to the
USA).  No funding or cost-sharing of the project comes from any
company or educational institution.  As well, Theo works full-time on
improving OpenBSD.  Additional funding is urgently needed at all times,
in fact a nice sponsorship or two would go a long ways towards ensuring
that OpenBSD continues to exist.  Currently the project is in grave
danger.

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<strong>Please do not take this above statement too lightly, since the
project is typically not in strong financial health.</strong>

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