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<li><a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS" |
| <li><a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)" |
<li><a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)" |
| <li><a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a> |
<li><a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a> |
| <li><a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a> |
<li><a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a> |
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3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2> |
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<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]</a><br> |
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OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br> |
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uncompressed copy of this song.<br> |
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<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.mp3">MP3 version of song (10:08 minutes, 18MB)</a><br> |
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<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg">OGG version of song (10:08 minutes, 13MB)</a><br> |
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<a href="images/Wizard.jpg"><img alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a> |
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For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have |
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good device support.<br> |
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Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply |
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programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald |
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Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game |
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here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get |
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documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more |
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drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most |
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ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors |
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still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom, |
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Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect) but the driver problem is mostly solved in |
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the ethernet market.<br> |
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Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets. |
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Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented |
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devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers |
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preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors. |
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Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and |
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phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these |
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companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br> |
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The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br> |
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Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project. |
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We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we |
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could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did |
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not suceed for some vendors. But we very well some vendors, in |
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particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us |
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everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br> |
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Want to help us? Avoid |
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>, |
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Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets. |
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Heck, avoid buying even regular |
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi"old pre-G Prism products</a>, |
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to send a message. |
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If you can, buy these products from |
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>, |
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>, |
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>, |
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>, |
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>. |
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Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box |
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which chipsets into product. |
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Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in |
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Redmont largely continues their practices because they get |
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the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. |
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What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing |
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Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them |
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distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers |
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are not asking their commnities to help us in our efforts to free |
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development information for all, but are even going further and |
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telling their development communities to not work with us at |
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pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous. |
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The heroine is deaf to her device<br> |
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her uncles on the farm,<br> |
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send out the alarm<br> |
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and the shit storm flies<br> |
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E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br> |
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With Puffathy inside,<br> |
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twisting up a ride<br> |
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to the land of OS<br> |
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Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br> |
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The wicked lawyers dead<br> |
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The open slippers red are<br> |
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Hers to take<br> |
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Ding dong the lawyers dead<br> |
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You're off to see the Wizard kid<br> |
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The north witch instructed Puffathy<br> |
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To get yourself back home<br> |
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Take this yellow road and<br> |
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You'll be free<br> |
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Believe in the open ruby shoes<br> |
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Now go to see the Wiz and<br> |
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give Taiwan your biz<br> |
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You'll never lose<br> |
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The 3 friends she made along the way<br> |
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Were nice but pretty lame,<br> |
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lazy and insane<br> |
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but they sang OK<br> |
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Ding dong the lawyers dead<br> |
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You're off to see the Wizard kid<br> |
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Finally we're through the trees<br> |
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The city glows<br> |
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It's positively green<br> |
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Pompously the wizard booms<br> |
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He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br> |
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Go to the west<br> |
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You must pass the test<br> |
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For me<br> |
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Bring me the ride<br> |
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of the witch I despise<br> |
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And you'll be free<br> |
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You don't need the broom<br> |
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You don't need the shoes<br> |
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You don't need the wiz<br> |
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You will never lose<br> |
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You have all you need<br> |
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You always had heart<br> |
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You always had courage<br> |
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Did somebody fart?<br> |
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You always had brains<br> |
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You answered each call<br> |
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And this may surprise<br> |
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But you've got some balls<br> |
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So double click heels<br> |
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and work with Taiwan<br> |
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And speak to your doggie<br> |
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You're already gone....<br> |
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Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka. |
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Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere, |
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Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty |
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Semaka, |
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guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by |
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Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis. |
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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at Moxam Studios |
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(1-403-233-0350). |
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