+ This is software is free,
+ so on the count of three,
+ update to six dot eight!
+
+ Stack up too much fakes and the world breaks.
+ Only what is open can be true.
+ Full transparency is best for you.
+
+ Free functional, and secure.
+ hacker people! hacker people!
+ Just read the code if unsure.
+
+ Hack the planet,
+ search to see what makes it tick,
+ makes it panic
+ This software is free, on the count of three:
+ update to six dot eight.
+
+ Hacker people! Hacker people!
+
+ What's the deal, what's still real?
+ Ground yourself with truth.
+ Run a software that allows you to sleuth.
+ Only that what's open can be true.
+ Full transparency is best for me and you.
+
+ Hack the planet,
+ search to see what makes it tick,
+ makes it panic.
+
+ if I fool your time you are mine.
+ if I hide what you should see,
+ your routing is debris.
+
+ Hack the planet,
+ search to see what makes it tick,
+ makes it panic.
+ Together we are openbsd,
+ everyone update to 6.8!
+
+ Hacker people! Hacker people!
+
+
+
+ Like the movie "Hackers", the OpenBSD project is now 25 years old. + Though the movie played no part in our focus on security. +
+ What a ride it's been. +
+ My little hobby project took itself both too seriously, and not + seriously at all. Then somewhere along the way the project started + collecting many seriously skilled developers who found it a + "fertile ground" to play and experiment. (To counter that, maybe they + didn't find other places as interesting, or didn't want to write + independent software which wasn't being adopted). +
+ The "fertile ground" I'm talking about is our willingness to throw away + the old and replace it, or try to adopt or build security protections, + or integrate pieces normally not part of a unix system (such as the + extensive network components). The OpenSSH story comes from the same + approach. +
+ In doing so, we didn't annoy too many people because we stayed true to + the spirit of old BSD unix. It feels like modernized SunOS 4.0, + trying to be highly cohesive complete system where all the parts are + supposed to work similarily, and if they don't, we consider changing them. + The ifconfig command has been extended greatly, but it remains :-) +
+ Strangely, along the way our work started influencing the whole + software industry. The packet filter pf is included in some systems. + Our libc work is in other places. OpenSSH, privsep, and W^X and + address space randomization and other hardenings are either ubiquitous + now or inching that way. Pieces of our work are in nooks and crannies + everywhere, while the cohesive whole OpenBSD continues to be developed + apace. +
+ Another 25 years? +
+