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<a href="#44">4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"<br> |
| <a href="#43">4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"<br> |
<a href="#43">4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"<br> |
| <a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"<br> |
<a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"<br> |
| <a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"<br> |
<a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"<br> |
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4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a></font></h2> |
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<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.4 or other items]</a><br> |
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OpenBSD 4.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br> |
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uncompressed copy of this song.<br> |
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3:05 minutes |
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<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a> |
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<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.ogg">(OGG 4.4MB)</a><br> |
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<img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/SourceWars.jpg"></a> |
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Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of |
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the Berkeley Unix distributions for the |
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565925823/openbsdA/"> |
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O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"</a>. |
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We recommend you read his story, entitled |
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<a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html"> |
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"Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix |
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From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable"</a> |
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first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here. |
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Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has |
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probably not been read by enough people. |
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The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were |
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not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear. |
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But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase |
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of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting |
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than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which |
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hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period. |
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But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so |
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much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had |
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lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid? |
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After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had |
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already been replaced by university researchers and their associates. |
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So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group) |
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started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest. |
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Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX |
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conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these |
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rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by |
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piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs. |
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Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like |
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Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more. |
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Then Mike and Kirk purified in the kernel. After a bit more careful |
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checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which |
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was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source |
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code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice). |
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Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system |
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based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories |
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(basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB. |
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Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the |
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lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments |
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(and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite. |
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Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for |
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a lot less than <a href=orders.html>$1000 per copy</a>). |
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The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, |
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and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free. |
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Source Wars<br> |
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Episode IV<br> |
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Trial of the BSD Knights<br> |
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Not so very long ago<br> |
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and not so far away<br> |
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AT&T made system code<br> |
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and gave some bits away<br> |
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Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it<br> |
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better, faster, more diverse<br> |
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This open thing was wonderful<br> |
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for everyone on Earth<br> |
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And then the roaring 90's came<br> |
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The Empire changed its mind<br> |
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And good old greed was back again<br> |
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The geeks were in a legal bind<br> |
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The Empire's Unix Lab<br> |
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sued BSDi from above<br> |
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The code is free but<br> |
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only we can sell it bub!<br> |
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The University came calling<br> |
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in full protective mode<br> |
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and proved the source in NET 2<br> |
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didn't use the Empire's code<br> |
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Then Bostic brought the Empire's books<br> |
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n' slammed them dandys down<br> |
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And showed the giant chunks<br> |
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of BSD code all around<br> |
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They didn't even give an ounce<br> |
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of credit front to back<br> |
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This broke the license USL<br> |
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was using to attack<br> |
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The case was thrown out by the judge<br> |
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and "settled" out of court<br> |
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And UCB was big enough<br> |
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to take it like a sport<br> |
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And to this day the geekfolk say<br> |
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Now did we win or lose?<br> |
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They shoulda made 'em reprint<br> |
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every book with proper dues<br> |
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And take out ads in major rags<br> |
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apologetically<br> |
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And maybe now it wouldn't be<br> |
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the same monopoly<br> |
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The Empire might have tumbled<br> |
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down if everybody saw<br> |
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How greed became so big<br> |
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they couldn't see that glaring flaw<br> |
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But only one community<br> |
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the one that makes it tick<br> |
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Is there to fight for everyone<br> |
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exposing hypocrites<br> |
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And OpenBSD is here<br> |
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to tell the story right<br> |
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Once again the fight is fought<br> |
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and kept in shining light<br> |
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And may the source be with you<br> |
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May the Empire fall apart<br> |
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Ya like that's gonna happen!<br> |
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But we gotta keep heart!<br> |
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Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka. |
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Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey. |
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Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis. |
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Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-617-2864). |
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