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+ 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"
4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"
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+ 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"

+ + +

+ [Order OpenBSD 4.4 or other items]
+ OpenBSD 4.4 CD2 track 2 is an
+ uncompressed copy of this song.
+
+ 3:05 minutes + (MP3 5.6MB) + (OGG 4.4MB)
+
+ +

+
+
+ + Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of + the Berkeley Unix distributions for the + + O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution". + We recommend you read his story, entitled + + "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix + From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable" + first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here. + Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has + probably not been read by enough people. +
+
+ The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were + not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear. + But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase + of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting + than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which + hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period. + But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so + much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had + lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid? +
+
+ After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had + already been replaced by university researchers and their associates. + So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group) + started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest. + Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX + conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these + rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by + piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs. + Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like + Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more. +
+
+ Then Mike and Kirk purified in the kernel. After a bit more careful + checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which + was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source + code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice). +
+
+ Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system + based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories + (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB. + Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the + lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments + (and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite. + Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for + a lot less than $1000 per copy). +
+
+ The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, + and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free. +
+ +

+
+

+
+ +
+ Source Wars
+ Episode IV
+ Trial of the BSD Knights
+ +
+ Not so very long ago
+ and not so far away
+ AT&T made system code
+ and gave some bits away
+
+ Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it
+ better, faster, more diverse
+ This open thing was wonderful
+ for everyone on Earth
+
+ And then the roaring 90's came
+ The Empire changed its mind
+ And good old greed was back again
+ The geeks were in a legal bind
+
+ The Empire's Unix Lab
+ sued BSDi from above
+ The code is free but
+ only we can sell it bub!
+
+ The University came calling
+ in full protective mode
+ and proved the source in NET 2
+ didn't use the Empire's code
+
+ Then Bostic brought the Empire's books
+ n' slammed them dandys down
+ And showed the giant chunks
+ of BSD code all around
+
+ They didn't even give an ounce
+ of credit front to back
+ This broke the license USL
+ was using to attack
+
+ The case was thrown out by the judge
+ and "settled" out of court
+ And UCB was big enough
+ to take it like a sport
+
+ And to this day the geekfolk say
+ Now did we win or lose?
+ They shoulda made 'em reprint
+ every book with proper dues
+
+ And take out ads in major rags
+ apologetically
+ And maybe now it wouldn't be
+ the same monopoly
+
+ The Empire might have tumbled
+ down if everybody saw
+ How greed became so big
+ they couldn't see that glaring flaw
+
+ But only one community
+ the one that makes it tick
+ Is there to fight for everyone
+ exposing hypocrites
+
+ And OpenBSD is here
+ to tell the story right
+ Once again the fight is fought
+ and kept in shining light
+
+ And may the source be with you
+ May the Empire fall apart
+ Ya like that's gonna happen!
+ But we gotta keep heart!
+
+

+ + Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka. + Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey. + Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis. + Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-617-2864). +
+
+ + +

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