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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://www.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.<p>
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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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