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-OpenVOX (Extra audio CD track)
-4.0: Humppa Negala
+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"
@@ -56,6 +57,145 @@

+ +

+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)
+
+ +PuffyBaba +
+
+ +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. +
+
+ + +

"OpenVOX"

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