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+4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"
4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"
4.2: "100001 1010101"
4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"
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+ +

+4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"

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+After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had +already been replaced by university researchers and their associates.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

+ +Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka. +Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey. +Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis. +Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-617-2864). +
+
+ + +

4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"

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