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! OpenVOX (Extra audio CD track)
! 4.0: Humppa Negala
3.9: "Blob!"
3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"
3.7: "The Wizard of OS"
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! 4.1: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors
! 4.0: Humppa Negala and ! OpenVOX (extra track)
3.9: "Blob!"
3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"
3.7: "The Wizard of OS"
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+ +

+ 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"

+ + +

+ [Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]
+ OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an
+ uncompressed copy of this song.
+
+ 4:19 minutes + (MP3 4.1MB) + (OGG 8.3MB)
+
+ +

+
+
+ + As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities + is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains + useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the + hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising + that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to + device support. +
+ Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, though to libraries, + all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious + interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing" + mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the + time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant + challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior + of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly + weird, or even buggy. +
+ When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can + become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused + for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because + the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease + these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation + from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to + documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple these all these devices + actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in + OpenBSD, either). +
+ When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation, + our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair, + and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But + unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or + 20 years building + + political hurdles against the smaller players. +
+ A particularily nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and + some Linux developers, who have played along with a American corporate model + of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux + into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system + communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for + requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would + work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems + would be fantastic by now. +

+ We only ask that + + users help us in changing the political landscape. + +

+
+

+
+ Here's an old story ...
+
+
+ Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors
+ We all know the details
+ Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,
+ some serious loot,
+ and lucky - Mister - Baba
+ Who got a bad rap if you ask me
+ The little guy who
+ did the best with what he had
+
+
+ Here are Mr. Baba's lessons
+ Load one ass, take a few trips and spend
+ in moderation
+ Three things the average man can't - get - right
+
+
+ If you know your brother is a greedy bastard
+ never give him the password
+ If he goes penguin on you,
+ stop - being - his brother.
+ When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers
+ A sea of blood will be it's doormat
+ So do the best with what you have
+
+
+ Beyond the lessons - you must know this
+ that the Devil is as real as your address
+ But unlike Vendors,
+ he at least keeps the door open
+
+
+ Vendors of water that should be free
+ Look upon their words and despair
+ Their badvertising made a thief of my brother
+ then made him better off dead
+ Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with
+
+
+ Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.
+ The companies of thieves stole every good adjective
+ and left us with open source (sores)
+ sharing smaller and smaller bandages
+ for each consecutive cut
+ But with the salty water of labour
+ parched desert becomes pregnant black soil
+
+
+ It's not whether you're well off
+ it's where you dig the well
+ The best the little guy can do is what
+ the little guy does right
+
+
+

+ + CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors". + Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios + (1-403-233-0350). Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka. +
+
+ + +

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