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1.3 ian 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">Release Songs</font></h2><hr>
1.100 deraadt 19: <p>
20:
21: Every 6 months the OpenBSD project has the pleasure to release
22: software on an official CDROM set, with artwork and a matching song.
23: Ty Semaka (our artist) and Theo borrow and mutate some theme (from a
24: classical setting, a movie, or some genre) into the world of Puffy, to
25: describe some event or controversy the project went through, or a
26: stance that was taken, over the previous six months. Theo then gets
27: the pleasure (and responsibility) to write a commentary describing it
28: all.
1.1 deraadt 29:
1.20 deraadt 30: <p>
1.71 deraadt 31: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
32: <tr>
1.72 deraadt 33: <td valign="top" width="45%">
1.104 deraadt 34: <a href="#44">4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"<br>
1.95 deraadt 35: <a href="#43">4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"<br>
1.90 deraadt 36: <a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"<br>
1.89 deraadt 37: <a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"<br>
38: <a href="#40">4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a> and
39: <a href="#audio_extra">"OpenVOX" (extra track)</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 40: <a href="#39">3.9: "Blob!"</a><br>
41: <a href="#38">3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a><br>
42: <a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS"</a><br>
43: <a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a><br>
44: <a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a><br>
45: <a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a><br>
46: <a href="#33">3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a><br>
47: <a href="#32">3.2: "Goldflipper"</a><br>
48: <a href="#31">3.1: "Systemagic"</a><br>
49: <a href="#30">3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a><br>
50: </td><td valign="top" width="1%">
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56: The 3.0 - 4.0 songs are available on an Audio CD celebrating
57: 10 years of OpenBSD releases.
58: <br>
59: <br>
1.76 deraadt 60: An <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
61: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") is included which details
62: the process of making the art and music each release.
1.71 deraadt 63: <br clear=all>
1.72 deraadt 64: <br>
1.71 deraadt 65: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 66: Order an Audio CDROM from our International site</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 67: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order.eu?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 68: Order an Audio CDROM from our European site</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 69: </td></tr></table>
1.20 deraadt 70: <p>
1.104 deraadt 71:
72: <hr>
73: <a name=44></a>
74: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="44.html">
75: 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a></font></h2>
76: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
77: <tr>
78: <td valign="top" width="33%">
79: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.4 or other items]</a><br>
80: OpenBSD 4.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
81: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
82: <br>
83: 3:05 minutes
84: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
85: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.ogg">(OGG 4.4MB)</a><br>
86: <br>
87: <a href="images/SourceWars.jpg">
88: <img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/SourceWars.jpg"></a>
89: <br>
90: <br>
91: <em>
92: Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of
93: the Berkeley Unix distributions for the
94: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565925823/openbsdA/">
95: O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"</a>.
96: We recommend you read his story, entitled
97: <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html">
98: "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
99: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable"</a>
100: first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here.
101: Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has
102: probably not been read by enough people.
103: <br>
104: <br>
105: The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were
106: not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear.
107: But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase
108: of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting
109: than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which
110: hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period.
111: But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so
112: much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had
113: lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid?
114: <br>
115: <br>
116: After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had
117: already been replaced by university researchers and their associates.
118: So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group)
119: started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest.
120: Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX
121: conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these
122: rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by
123: piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs.
124: Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like
125: Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more.
126: <br>
127: <br>
1.105 deraadt 128: Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit more careful
1.104 deraadt 129: checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which
130: was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source
131: code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice).
132: <br>
133: <br>
134: Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system
135: based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories
136: (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB.
137: Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the
138: lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments
139: (and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite.
140: Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for
141: a lot less than <a href=orders.html>$1000 per copy</a>).
142: <br>
143: <br>
144: The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick,
145: and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.
146: <br>
147: </em>
148: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
149: <br>
150: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
151: <br>
152: <center>
153: <br>
154: Source Wars<br>
155: Episode IV<br>
156: Trial of the BSD Knights<br>
157: </center>
158: <br>
159: Not so very long ago<br>
160: and not so far away<br>
161: AT&T made system code<br>
162: and gave some bits away<br>
163: <br>
164: Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it<br>
165: better, faster, more diverse<br>
166: This open thing was wonderful<br>
167: for everyone on Earth<br>
168: <br>
169: And then the roaring 90's came<br>
170: The Empire changed its mind<br>
171: And good old greed was back again<br>
172: The geeks were in a legal bind<br>
173: <br>
174: The Empire's Unix Lab<br>
175: sued BSDi from above<br>
176: The code is free but<br>
177: only we can sell it bub!<br>
178: <br>
179: The University came calling<br>
180: in full protective mode<br>
1.106 ! deraadt 181: and proved the source in Net/2<br>
1.104 deraadt 182: didn't use the Empire's code<br>
183: <br>
184: Then Bostic brought the Empire's books<br>
185: n' slammed them dandys down<br>
186: And showed the giant chunks<br>
187: of BSD code all around<br>
188: <br>
189: They didn't even give an ounce<br>
190: of credit front to back<br>
191: This broke the license USL<br>
192: was using to attack<br>
193: <br>
194: The case was thrown out by the judge<br>
195: and "settled" out of court<br>
196: And UCB was big enough<br>
197: to take it like a sport<br>
198: <br>
199: And to this day the geekfolk say<br>
200: Now did we win or lose?<br>
201: They shoulda made 'em reprint<br>
202: every book with proper dues<br>
203: <br>
204: And take out ads in major rags<br>
205: apologetically<br>
206: And maybe now it wouldn't be<br>
207: the same monopoly<br>
208: <br>
209: The Empire might have tumbled<br>
210: down if everybody saw<br>
211: How greed became so big<br>
212: they couldn't see that glaring flaw<br>
213: <br>
214: But only one community<br>
215: the one that makes it tick<br>
216: Is there to fight for everyone<br>
217: exposing hypocrites<br>
218: <br>
219: And OpenBSD is here<br>
220: to tell the story right<br>
221: Once again the fight is fought<br>
222: and kept in shining light<br>
223: <br>
224: And may the source be with you<br>
225: May the Empire fall apart<br>
226: Ya like that's gonna happen!<br>
227: But we gotta keep heart!<br>
228: <br>
229: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
230: <img width=395 height=1800 src="images/44song.jpg"><br>
231: </td></tr></table>
232: <p>
233: <em>
234: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka.
235: Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey.
236: Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis.
237: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-617-2864).
238: <br>
239: <br>
240: </em>
1.20 deraadt 241:
242: <hr>
1.95 deraadt 243: <a name=43></a>
244: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="43.html">
245: 4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"</a></font></h2>
246: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
247: <tr>
248: <td valign="top" width="33%">
249: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.3 or other items]</a><br>
250: OpenBSD 4.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
251: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
252: <br>
253: 4:48 minutes
254: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.mp3">(MP3 8.2MB)</a>
255: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.ogg">(OGG 6.5MB)</a><br>
256: <br>
257: <a href="images/Cryptonaut.jpg">
258: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Cryptonaut" src="images/Cryptonaut.jpg"></a>
259: <br>
260: <br>
261: <em>
262: We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man
263: who is a lot like
264: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/">Naomi Campbell</a>.
265: <br>
266: <br>
267: In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at
1.102 deraadt 268: Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans
269: (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from
270: his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted
1.95 deraadt 271: to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from
272: the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue
1.96 deraadt 273: and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto
1.95 deraadt 274: the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane.
275: After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed
276: onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few
277: OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby,
278: so we have an accurate story of the events.
279: <br>
280: <br>
281: This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us
282: about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes
283: it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he
284: has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone.
285: He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him
286: alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
287: <br>
288: <br>
289: We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We
290: remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a
291: requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of
292: free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's
293: in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful
294: influence which he could use so falsely.
295: <br>
296: <br>
297: We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our "ports" tree
298: builds software that is 'found on the net' into packages that
299: OpenBSD users can use more easily. A scaffold of Makefiles and
300: scripts automatically fetch these pieces of software, apply
301: patches as required by OpenBSD, and then build them into nice
302: neat little tarballs. This is provided as a convenience for
1.97 okan 303: users. The ports tree is maintained by OpenBSD entirely separately
1.95 deraadt 304: from our main source tree. Some of the software which is fetched
305: and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.
306: All the other operating system projects make exactly the same
307: decision, and provide these same conveniences to their users.
308: <br>
309: <br>
310: Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free.
311: He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically, yet
312: he said nothing to the many other vendors who do the same; many of
313: them donate to the FSF and perhaps that has something to do with it.
314: Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official
315: GNU software -- including Emacs -- compiles and runs on Windows.
316: <br>
317: <br>
318: That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some
319: people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not
320: follow their own stupid rules.
321: </em>
322: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
323: <br>
324: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
325: <br>
326:
327: <br>
328: Puffy and the mighty Cryptonauts<br>
329: Trading with new lands by open C<br>
330: Corporate monsters, many closing passages<br>
331: Tempting harpies<br>
332: 13 years of treachery<br>
333: <br>
334: <br>
335: Journey's over, welcome home the heroes<br>
336: Offering the bounty of their trade<br>
337: Useful clothing spun from the golden fleece<br>
338: For the people, free and very strongly made<br>
339: <br>
340: <br>
341: But something's wrong with them<br>
342: They will not take our free wares<br>
343: "What's the matter good people?<br>
1.99 deraadt 344: Why are you so scared?<br>
345: Why?"<br>
1.95 deraadt 346: <br>
347: <br>
348: Then one brave soul spoke out<br>
349: "We're not allowed to take your gifts<br>
1.98 okan 350: Hypocrites has spoken<br>
1.95 deraadt 351: There are many new laws"<br>
352: <br>
353: <br>
1.98 okan 354: Hypocrites appears<br>
1.95 deraadt 355: "Puffy!<br>
356: You must obey my new rules!"<br>
357: <br>
358: <br>
359: "First rule one dictates<br>
360: You cannot give your code away"<br>
361: <br>
362: <br>
363: (In Greek) To your health, Nick, great bouzouki player and cool dude.<br>
364: <br>
365: <br>
366: "And rule two dictates<br>
367: You must give it to me<br>
368: So I can give it away properly for free"<br>
369: <br>
370: <br>
371: "The list goes on of course<br>
372: But for traders this is all you need"<br>
373: <br>
374: <br>
375: "This is madness!<br>
376: He has lost his mind!<br>
377: This defies the first law of free trade<br>
378: Rule zero came before this rule one<br>
379: Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone"<br>
380: <br>
381: <br>
382: Then Hypocrites goes mad.<br>
383: <br>
384: <br>
385: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
386: <img width=395 height=1720 src="images/43song.gif"><br>
387: </td></tr></table>
388: <p>
389: <em>
390: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
391: Nikkos Diochnos. Vocals and bouzouki by Nikkos Diochnos. Baglama,
392: second bouzouki, violin, bass, and drum programming by Stelios Pulos,
1.101 naddy 393: né Jonathan Lewis. Guitar by Methodios Valtiotis, né Allen Baekeland.
394: Percussion by Pentelis Yiannikopulos, né Ben Johnson. Recorded, mixed,
1.95 deraadt 395: and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-617-2864).
396: <br>
397: <br>
398: </em>
399:
400: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 401: <a name=42></a>
402: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="42.html">
403: 4.2: "100001 1010101"</a></font></h2>
404: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
405: <tr>
406: <td valign="top" width="33%">
407: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.2 or other items]</a><br>
408: OpenBSD 4.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
409: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
410: <br>
411: 4:40 minutes
412: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.mp3">(MP3 4.0MB)</a>
413: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.ogg">(OGG 6.4MB)</a><br>
414: <br>
415: <a href="images/Marathon.jpg">
416: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Marathon" src="images/Marathon.jpg"></a>
417: <br>
418: <br>
419: <em>
420: Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do.
1.91 merdely 421: This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have
1.90 deraadt 422: remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software,
423: that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share
424: these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open
425: Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one
426: would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't
427: seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects
428: away from the ideals very quickly.
429: <p>
1.93 jmc 430: Much of any operating system's usability depends on device support,
1.91 merdely 431: and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices
1.90 deraadt 432: available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project
433: could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or
434: including binary objects in the operating system for which no source
435: code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden
436: inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset
437: of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about
438: getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.
439: <p>
440: Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals,
441: we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues,
1.91 merdely 442: resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much
1.90 deraadt 443: recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also
444: led to other issues.
445: <p>
446: We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used
447: by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often
448: than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still
449: properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the
450: same spirit that they were given in the first place.
451: <p>
452: That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our
453: stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal;
454: we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more
455: from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux
456: projects.
457: <p>
458: Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all
459: codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants
460: of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the
461: SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source
462: into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off
463: as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution
464: -- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who
465: have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself,
466: not for their agenda.
467: <p>
468: The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do
469: what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We
470: don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our
471: image. We are here to have fun doing right.
472: <p>
473: </em>
474: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
475: <br>
476: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
477: <br>
478: The starting line is nervous<br>
479: we burst upon the course<br>
480: Electric is our passion<br>
481: An open hearted force<br>
482: <br>
483: The water's full of dangers<br>
484: That interrupt the flow<br>
485: And soon the spirit splinters<br>
1.92 deraadt 486: as temptation takes its toll<br>
1.90 deraadt 487: <br>
488: *Give and get back some<br>
489: Sharing it all<br>
490: Path we know best<br>
491: we're having a ball<br>
492: Opulent mission<br>
493: Lost in our passion<br>
494: You can still choose<br>
495: If you don't swim to win<br>
496: you'll never lose*<br>
497: <br>
498: One Zero Zero Zero Zero One<br>
499: <br>
500: The window is a wall by now<br>
501: A sieve of sickened holes<br>
502: The water chicken stealing maps<br>
503: Mistaking us for foes<br>
504: <br>
505: The sun a son of Icarus<br>
506: Flies too close to itself<br>
507: Forbidden fruit is blinded<br>
508: by the toys upon the shelf<br>
509: <br>
510: *CHORUS*<br>
511: <br>
512: One Zero One Zero One Zero One<br>
513: <br>
514: Slow and steady wins they say<br>
515: but this is not a race<br>
516: It's not about who takes a prize<br>
517: for first or second place<br>
518: <br>
519: Imaginary rings of brass<br>
520: Were traded for real goals<br>
521: The vision and the mission lost<br>
522: For those with corporate souls<br>
523: <br>
524: *Give and get back some<br>
525: Sharing it all<br>
526: Path we know best<br>
527: we're having a ball<br>
528: Give and get zeros<br>
529: Give and get ones<br>
530: Given to you but<br>
531: Not you to us<br>
532: Opulent mission<br>
533: Lost in our passion<br>
534: You can still choose<br>
535: If you don't swim to win<br>
536: you'll never lose<br>
537: You'll never lose*<br>
538: <br>
539: <br>
540: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
541: <img width=396 height=1876 src="images/42song.gif"><br>
542: </td></tr></table>
543: <p>
544: <em>
545: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed and
546: mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
547: Vocals by Duncan McDonnald (www.thegreatgavalan.com). Drums by
548: John McNeil. Guitar by Jeff Drummond. Bass and keyboards by
549: Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and Theo de Raadt.
550: <br>
551: <br>
552: </em>
553:
554: <hr>
1.81 deraadt 555: <a name=41></a>
556: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
557: 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
558: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
559: <tr>
560: <td valign="top" width="33%">
561: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]</a><br>
562: OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
563: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
564: <br>
565: 4:19 minutes
566: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
567: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
568: <br>
569: <a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
570: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
571: <br>
572: <br>
573: <em>
574: As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
575: is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
576: useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
577: hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
578: that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
579: device support.
580: <p>
1.85 mbalmer 581: Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
1.81 deraadt 582: all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
583: interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
584: mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
585: time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
586: challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
587: of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
588: weird, or even buggy.
589: <p>
590: When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
591: become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
592: for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
593: the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
594: these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
595: from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
1.84 matthieu 596: documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
1.81 deraadt 597: actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
598: OpenBSD, either).
599: <p>
600: When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
601: our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
602: and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
603: unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
604: 20 years building
1.83 wvdputte 605: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
1.81 deraadt 606: political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
607: <p>
1.82 jsg 608: A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
1.87 tom 609: some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
1.81 deraadt 610: of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
611: into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
612: communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
613: requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
614: work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
615: would be fantastic by now.
616: <p>
617: We only ask that
1.83 wvdputte 618: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
1.81 deraadt 619: users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
620: </em>
621: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
622: <br>
623: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
624: <br>
625: Here's an old story ...<br>
626: <br>
627: <br>
628: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
629: We all know the details<br>
630: Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
631: some serious loot,<br>
632: and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
633: Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
634: The little guy who<br>
635: did the best with what he had<br>
636: <br>
637: <br>
638: Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
639: Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
640: in moderation<br>
641: Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
642: <br>
643: <br>
644: If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
645: never give him the password<br>
646: If he goes penguin on you,<br>
647: stop - being - his brother.<br>
648: When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
1.86 tom 649: A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
1.81 deraadt 650: So do the best with what you have<br>
651: <br>
652: <br>
653: Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
654: that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
655: But unlike Vendors,<br>
656: he at least keeps the door open<br>
657: <br>
658: <br>
659: Vendors of water that should be free<br>
660: Look upon their words and despair<br>
661: Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
662: then made him better off dead<br>
663: Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
664: <br>
665: <br>
666: Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
667: The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
668: and left us with open source (sores)<br>
669: sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
670: for each consecutive cut<br>
671: But with the salty water of labour<br>
672: parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
673: <br>
674: <br>
675: It's not whether you're well off<br>
676: it's where you dig the well<br>
677: The best the little guy can do is what<br>
678: the little guy does right<br>
679: <br>
680: <br>
681: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
682: <img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
683: </td></tr></table>
684: <p>
685: <em>
686: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
687: (1-403-233-0350). Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
688: <br>
689: <br>
690: </em>
691:
692: <hr>
1.76 deraadt 693: <a name=audio_extra></a>
694: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
695: "OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
696: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
697: <tr>
698: <td valign="top" width="33%">
699: <a href="orders.html">[Order the OpenBSD audio CD or other items]</a><br>
700: These are the lyrics for the extra track on the OpenBSD Audio CD.<br>
701: <br>
702: 4:00 minutes
703: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
704: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
705: <br>
706: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
707: <br>
708: <br>
709: <em>
710: This is an <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
711: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.
712: <p>
713: This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
714: and music for each OpenBSD release.
715: Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
716: going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
717: </em>
718: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
719: <br>
720: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
721: Be Open<br>
722: Be Vocal<br>
723: Stay Open<br>
724: Stay Vocal<br>
725: <br>
726: (repeat)<br>
727: <br>
728: OpenBSD<br>
729: <br>
730: Twice a year,<br>
731: me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
732: at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
733: and take strips out of liars.<br>
734: He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
735: He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
736: button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
1.78 deraadt 737: on the systematicalifornication<br>
1.76 deraadt 738: and a license application<br>
739: is a fishybomination<br>
740: and a random allocation<br>
741: got a copywritten melanoma<br>
742: sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
743: OK stop.<br>
744: I get it.<br>
745: Some asshole lied.<br>
746: <br>
747: And then he says,<br>
1.78 deraadt 748: "The crashorama villaination<br>
1.76 deraadt 749: lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
750: the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
751: in the cyber cider documation<br>
752: universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
753: cohabitationizizingation"<br>
754: OK stop.<br>
755: I get it.<br>
756: <a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
757: Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
758: but he was only open for business.<br></a>
759: I get it.<br>
760: Where's my pencils?<br>
761: Bring me my mic!<br>
762: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
763: Be Open<br>
764: Be Vocal<br>
765: Stay Open<br>
766: Stay Vocal<br>
767: <br>
768: (repeat)<br>
769: <br>
770: Then he has another beer and<br>
771: gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
772: Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
773: And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
774: the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
775: where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
776: a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
777: and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
778: or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
779: and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
780: And squeeze in five concepts<br>
781: every time, every song!<br>
782: And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
783: if I draw the device wrong!<br>
784: "It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
785: And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
786: cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
787: <br>
788: (beat boxin')<br>
789: <br>
790: <br>
791: </td></tr></table>
792: <p>
793: <em>
794: <br>
795: </em>
796:
797: <hr>
798: <a name=40></a>
799: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
800: 4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
801: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
802: <tr>
803: <td valign="top" width="33%">
804: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.0 or other items]</a><br>
805: OpenBSD 4.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
806: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
807: <br>
808: 2:40 minutes
809: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
810: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
811: <br>
812: <a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
813: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
814: <br>
815: <br>
816: <em>
817: The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
1.77 deraadt 818: resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
1.76 deraadt 819: servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
1.77 deraadt 820: sells to continue our development goals.
1.76 deraadt 821: <br>
822: <br>
823: While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
1.77 deraadt 824: around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
825: or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
1.76 deraadt 826: the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
827: approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
828: the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
829: write and record a song that also matches the theme.
830: <br>
831: <br>
832: Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
833: so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
834: <br>
835: <br>
836: This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
837: try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
838: instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
839: write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
840: that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
1.77 deraadt 841: <br>
842: <br>
1.76 deraadt 843: OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
844: with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
1.77 deraadt 845: of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
846: songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
847: under such duress that much of our code gets written.
1.76 deraadt 848: <br>
849: <br>
850: We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
851: Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
852: returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
853: other developers.
854: </em>
855: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
856: <br>
857: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
858: <br>
859: <br>
860: <br>
861: Humppa negala<br>
862: Humppa negala<br>
863: Humppa negala<br>
864: Venismechah<br>
865: <br>
866: Humppa negala<br>
867: Humppa negala<br>
868: Humppa negala<br>
869: Venismechah<br>
870: <br>
871: Humppa neranenah<br>
872: Humppa neranenah<br>
873: Humppa neranenah<br>
874: Venismechah<br>
875: <br>
876: Humppa neranenah<br>
877: Humppa neranenah<br>
878: Humppa neranenah<br>
879: Venismechah<br>
880: <br>
881: Uru, uru achim!<br>
882: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
883: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
884: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
885: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
886: uru achim!<br>
887: uru achim!<br>
888: OpenBSD!<br>
889: <br>
890: <br>
891: (circus torture)<br>
892: <br>
893: <br>
894: Humppa negala<br>
895: Humppa negala<br>
896: Humppa negala<br>
897: Venismechah<br>
898: <br>
899: Humppa negala<br>
900: Humppa negala<br>
901: Humppa negala<br>
902: Venismechah<br>
903: <br>
904: Humppa neranenah<br>
905: Humppa neranenah<br>
906: Humppa neranenah<br>
907: Venismechah<br>
908: <br>
909: Humppa neranenah<br>
910: Humppa neranenah<br>
911: Humppa neranenah<br>
912: Venismechah<br>
913: <br>
914: Uru, uru achim!<br>
915: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
916: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
917: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
918: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
919: uru achim!<br>
920: uru achim!<br>
921: OpenBSD!<br>
922: <br>
923: <br>
924: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
925: <img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
926: </td></tr></table>
927: <p>
928: <em>
1.90 deraadt 929: Based on the traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
1.76 deraadt 930: Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
931: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
932: (1-403-233-0350). Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
1.94 tobias 933: Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.76 deraadt 934: <br>
935: <br>
936: </em>
937:
938: <hr>
1.63 deraadt 939: <a name=39></a>
1.64 jolan 940: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
1.63 deraadt 941: 3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
942: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
943: <tr>
944: <td valign="top" width="33%">
945: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.9 or other items]</a><br>
946: OpenBSD 3.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
947: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
948: <br>
1.76 deraadt 949: 4:00 minutes
950: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
951: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.63 deraadt 952: <br>
1.76 deraadt 953: <a href="images/Blob.jpg">
954: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
1.63 deraadt 955: <br>
956: <br>
957: <em>
958: OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
959: is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
960: without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
961: obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
962: and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
963: for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
964: <br>
965: <br>
966: Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
967: cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
968: <br>
969: <br>
970: But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
971: quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
972: no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
973: can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
974: <br>
975: <br>
976: <ul>
977: <li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
978: at any time.<br>
979: <br>
980: <li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
981: <br>
982: <li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
983: <br>
984: <li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
985: <br>
986: <li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
987: <br>
988: <li>
989: Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
990: less portable.<br>
991: <br>
992: <li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
993: </ul>
994: <br>
995: <br>
996: This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
997: source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
998: new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
999: vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
1000: the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
1001: assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
1002: </em>
1003: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1004: <br>
1005: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1006: <br><br><br>
1007: Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
1008: when we found him on the beach,<br>
1009: there was nothin' shady<br>
1010: you could bounce him on your knee<br>
1011: like a ba-ba-ball<br>
1012: and his first little word was adorable<br>
1013: <br>
1014: He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1015: blah blah blah<br>
1016: Blah!<br>
1017: <br>
1018: <br>
1019: Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
1020: But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
1021: <br>
1022: <br>
1023: Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
1024: He could get your motor runnin'<br>
1025: with a drop of goo<br>
1026: He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
1027: But by the time he graduated<br>
1028: Blob was business slime!<br>
1029: <br>
1030: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1031: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1032: blah blah<br>
1033: <br>
1034: <br>
1035: He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
1036: <br>
1037: <br>
1038: Now everybody had it<br>
1039: they was drivin' around<br>
1040: They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
1041: for convenience now<br>
1042: Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
1043: And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
1044: <br>
1045: <br>
1046: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1047: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1048: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1049: blah blah<br>
1050: <br>
1051: <br>
1052: It's linkin' time!<br>
1053: <br>
1054: <br>
1055: Now it was out of control<br>
1056: n' fishy's came to depend<br>
1057: on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
1058: Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
1059: Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
1060: <br>
1061: <br>
1062: He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1063: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1064: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1065: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1066: B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
1067: <br>
1068: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1069: Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
1.63 deraadt 1070: And he battled the Blob<br>
1071: who had crossed the line<br>
1072: He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
1073: I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
1074: <br>
1075: <br>
1076: But it was too late!<br>
1077: Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
1078: He wants your video!<br>
1079: Ya he wants your net!<br>
1080: He wants your drive!<br>
1081: He wants it all!!<br>
1082: <br>
1083: <br>
1084: Somebody help us!<br>
1085: Noooooooo!<br>
1086: NVIDIA!<br>
1087: Intel!<br>
1088: Atheros!<br>
1089: 3-Ware!<br>
1090: VIA!<br>
1091: ATI!<br>
1092: Broadcom!<br>
1093: TI!<br>
1094: Myricom!<br>
1095: HighPoint!<br>
1096: Adaptec!<br>
1097: Mylex!<br>
1098: ICP Vortex!<br>
1099: and IBM!<br>
1100: Takin' over the world!<br>
1101: <br>
1102: <br>
1103: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1104: <img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
1.63 deraadt 1105: </td></tr></table>
1106: <p>
1107: <em>
1108: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1109: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
1110: Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
1111: Theo de Raadt.
1112: Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
1113: Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
1114: Drums by Jim Buick.
1115: <br>
1116: <br>
1117: </em>
1118:
1119: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 1120: <a name=38></a>
1121: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
1122: 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
1123: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1124: <tr>
1125: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1126: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]</a><br>
1127: OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1128: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1129: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1130: 4:24 minutes
1131: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
1132: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
1133: Instrumental version
1134: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
1135: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
1.58 deraadt 1136: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1137: <a href="images/Jones.jpg">
1138: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
1.58 deraadt 1139: <br>
1140: <br>
1141: <em>
1142: For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
1143: out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
1144: programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
1145: their devices.
1146: <p>
1147: Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
1148: for the
1.70 steven 1149: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1150: Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
1151: They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
1152: for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
1153: affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
1154: course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
1.59 jolan 1155: bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
1156: issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
1157: cannot solve these issues.
1.58 deraadt 1158: <p>
1159: The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
1160: of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
1161: public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
1162: different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
1163: development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
1164: "quality" to show its head.
1165: <p>
1166: RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
1167: <br>
1168: <ul>
1.60 pvalchev 1169: <li>Redundancy
1.58 deraadt 1170: <li>Repair
1171: </ul>
1172: You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
1.60 pvalchev 1173: fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
1174: array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
1.58 deraadt 1175: itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
1176: <p>
1177: Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
1178: sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
1179: so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
1180: never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
1181: <p>
1182: Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
1183: tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
1.67 jolan 1184: is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
1.58 deraadt 1185: we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
1186: <p>
1187: And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
1188: vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
1189: the AMI controllers.
1190: <p>
1191: There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
1192: rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
1193: basic RAID management:
1194: <ul>
1195: <li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
1196: <li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
1197: <li>Being able to silence the buzzer
1198: <li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
1199: </ul>
1200: <p>
1201: The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
1202: And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
1203: all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
1204: <p>
1205: Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
1206: work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
1207: or do some reverse engineering for their products.
1208: <p>
1.60 pvalchev 1209: But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
1210: ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
1.58 deraadt 1211: controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
1212: may mean we can never get documentation for the
1.70 steven 1213: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1214: controllers.
1215: The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
1216: would not get documentation, either.
1217: 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
1218: look saintly.
1219: <p>
1220: Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
1221: in OpenBSD, please buy
1222: <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
1223: RAID cards. And everything
1.88 miod 1224: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
1.58 deraadt 1225: will just work</a>.
1226: <p>
1227: And keep pestering the other vendors.
1228: <br>
1229: </em>
1230: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1231: <br>
1232: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1233: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1234: Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
1235: <br>
1236: Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
1237: <br>
1238: Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
1239: treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
1240: morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
1241: hackologist and adventurer!<br>
1242: <br>
1243: Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
1244: the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
1245: vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
1246: <br>
1247: Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
1248: <br>
1249: <br>
1250: <font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
1251: Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
1252: <br>
1253: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1254: I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
1255: <br>
1256: <br>
1257: <font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
1258: They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
1259: <br>
1260: <br>
1261: <font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
1262: You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
1263: <br>
1264: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1265: Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
1266: <br>
1267: <br>
1268: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1269: SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
1270: <br>
1271: <font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
1272: API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
1273: <br>
1274: <br>
1275: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1276: Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
1277: there before him
1278: lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
1279: secure operating system,
1280: to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
1281: the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
1282: <br>
1283: Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
1284: Puffiana Jones!<br>
1285: <br>
1286: <br>
1287: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1288: <img height=2160 width=380 src="images/38song.gif"><br>
1.58 deraadt 1289: </td></tr></table>
1290: <p>
1291: <em>
1292: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1293: The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
1294: Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
1295: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios.
1296: (1-403-233-0350).
1297: <br>
1298: <br>
1299: </em>
1300:
1301: <hr>
1.44 deraadt 1302: <a name=37></a>
1303: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
1304: 3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
1305: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1306: <tr>
1307: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1308: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]</a><br>
1309: OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1310: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1311: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1312: 10:08 minutes
1313: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
1314: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 1315: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1316: <a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
1317: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
1.44 deraadt 1318: <br>
1319: <br>
1320: <em>
1321: For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
1322: good device support.<br>
1323: <br>
1324: Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
1325: programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
1326: Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
1327: here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
1328: documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
1329: drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
1330: ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
1331: still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
1.62 brad 1332: Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
1.46 henning 1333: solved in the ethernet market.<br>
1.44 deraadt 1334: <br>
1335: Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
1336: Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
1337: devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
1338: preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
1339: Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
1340: phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
1341: companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
1342: <br>
1343: The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
1344: <br>
1345: Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
1346: We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
1347: could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
1.52 deraadt 1348: not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
1.44 deraadt 1349: particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
1350: everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
1351: <br>
1352:
1353: Want to help us? Avoid
1354: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
1355: Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
1356: Heck, avoid buying even regular
1.48 deraadt 1357: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
1.44 deraadt 1358: to send a message.
1.48 deraadt 1359: If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
1.44 deraadt 1360: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
1361: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
1362: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
1363: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
1364: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
1365: Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
1.52 deraadt 1366: which chipsets into which product.
1.44 deraadt 1367: <br>
1368: <br>
1369: Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
1.56 cloder 1370: Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
1.44 deraadt 1371: the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
1372: What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
1373: Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
1374: distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
1.49 nick 1375: are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
1.44 deraadt 1376: development information for all, but are even going further and
1377: telling their development communities to not work with us at
1378: pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
1379: <br>
1380: </em>
1381: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1382: <br>
1383: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1384: The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
1385: her uncles on the farm,<br>
1386: send out the alarm<br>
1387: and the shit storm flies<br>
1388: E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
1389: With Puffathy inside,<br>
1390: twisting up a ride<br>
1391: to the land of OS<br>
1392: Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
1393: The wicked lawyers dead<br>
1394: The open slippers red are<br>
1395: Hers to take<br>
1396: <br>
1.53 otto 1397: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1398: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1399: <br>
1400: The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
1401: To get yourself back home<br>
1402: Take this yellow road and<br>
1.47 pvalchev 1403: You'll be fine<br>
1.44 deraadt 1404: Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
1405: Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
1406: give Taiwan your biz<br>
1407: You'll never lose<br>
1408: The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
1409: Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
1410: lazy and insane<br>
1411: but they sang OK<br>
1412: <br>
1.53 otto 1413: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1414: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1415: <br>
1416: Finally we're through the trees<br>
1417: The city glows<br>
1418: It's positively green<br>
1419: Pompously the wizard booms<br>
1420: He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
1421: <br>
1422: Go to the west<br>
1423: You must pass the test<br>
1424: For me<br>
1425: Bring me the ride<br>
1426: of the witch I despise<br>
1427: And you'll be free<br>
1428: <br>
1429: You don't need the broom<br>
1430: You don't need the shoes<br>
1431: You don't need the wiz<br>
1432: You will never lose<br>
1433: You have all you need<br>
1434: You always had heart<br>
1435: You always had courage<br>
1436: Did somebody fart?<br>
1437: You always had brains<br>
1438: You answered each call<br>
1.57 deraadt 1439: And this may surprise you<br>
1.44 deraadt 1440: But you've got some balls<br>
1441: So double click heels<br>
1442: and work with Taiwan<br>
1443: And speak to your doggie<br>
1444: You're already gone....<br>
1445: <br>
1446: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1447: <img height=1079 width=380 src="images/37song.gif"><br>
1.44 deraadt 1448: </td></tr></table>
1449: <p>
1450: <em>
1451: Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
1452: Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
1453: Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
1454: Semaka,
1455: guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
1.55 tom 1456: Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.44 deraadt 1457: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at Moxam Studios
1458: (1-403-233-0350).
1459: <br>
1460: <br>
1461: </em>
1462:
1463: <hr>
1.37 deraadt 1464: <a name=36></a>
1465: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
1466: 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
1467: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1468: <tr>
1469: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1470: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.6 or other items]</a><br>
1471: OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1472: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1473: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1474: 4:00 minutes
1475: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
1476: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
1.37 deraadt 1477: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1478: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
1479: <img width=227 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
1.37 deraadt 1480: <br>
1481: <br>
1482: <em>
1483: What is up with some free software providers?!
1484: They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
1485: <p>
1486: While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
1487: has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
1488: we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
1.41 deraadt 1489: to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
1.37 deraadt 1490: going to remember them in the end.
1491: <p>
1492: This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
1493: have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
1494: offerings in the last few years:
1495: <ul>
1496: <li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
1497: developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
1498: called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
1499: code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
1500: we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
1501: stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
1502: told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
1503: replacement effort.
1.41 deraadt 1504: Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
1.37 deraadt 1505: <p>
1506: <li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
1507: packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
1508: that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
1509: were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
1510: and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
1511: one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
1512: <p>
1513: <li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
1514: of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
1515: web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
1516: and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
1.40 jolan 1517: a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
1.51 jcs 1518: doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
1.37 deraadt 1519: protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
1520: </ul>
1521: So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
1522: others who will follow them:
1523: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
1524: replace it.
1525: <br>
1526: </em>
1527: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1528: <br>
1529: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1530: <br>
1531: <br>
1532: Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
1533: Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
1534: Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
1535: Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
1536: <p>
1537: But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
1.38 pvalchev 1538: Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
1.37 deraadt 1539: Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
1540: Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
1541: <p>
1542: <br>
1543: He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
1544: So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
1545: Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
1546: They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
1547: <p>
1548: So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
1549: Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
1550: Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
1551: Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
1552: <p>
1553: <br>
1554: Pond-erosa Puff<br>
1555: wouldn't take no guff<br>
1.41 deraadt 1556: Water oughta be clean and free<br>
1.37 deraadt 1557: So he fought the fight<br>
1558: and he set things right<br>
1559: With his OpenBSD<br>
1560: <p>
1561: <br>
1562: Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
1563: But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
1564: Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
1565: He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
1566: <p>
1567: But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
1568: Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
1569: Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
1570: Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
1571: <p>
1572: <br>
1573: "The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
1574: And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
1.51 jcs 1575: "No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1576: Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
1577: <p>
1578: Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
1579: So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
1580: Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
1581: So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
1582: <p>
1583: <br>
1584: CHORUS<br>
1585: <p>
1586: <br>
1587: So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
1588: The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
1589: Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
1.42 deraadt 1590: Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1591: <p>
1592: So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
1593: Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
1594: They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
1595: Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
1596: <p>
1597: <br>
1598: I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
1.39 mcbride 1599: n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1600: You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
1601: and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
1602: <p>
1603: I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
1604: of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
1.41 deraadt 1605: So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
1606: Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1607: <p>
1608: <br>
1609: CHORUS<br>
1610: <br>
1611: <p>
1612: That's right!<br>
1613: I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
1614: Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
1615: <br>
1616: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1617: <img height=1634 width=263 src="images/36song.gif"><br>
1.37 deraadt 1618: </td></tr></table>
1619: <p>
1620: <em>
1621: Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
1622: Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
1623: Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
1624: Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
1625: <br>
1626: <br>
1627: </em>
1628:
1629: <hr>
1.30 deraadt 1630: <a name=35></a>
1.33 deraadt 1631: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
1632: 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
1.30 deraadt 1633: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1634: <tr>
1635: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 1636: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.5 or other items]</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1637: OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.55 tom 1638: uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
1.30 deraadt 1639: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1640: 5:21 minutes
1641: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
1642: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1643: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1644: <a href="images/Carp.gif">
1645: <img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
1.30 deraadt 1646: <br>
1647: <br>
1648: <em>
1649: A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
1650: and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
1651: themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
1652: redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
1653: Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
1654: <p>
1655: We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
1656: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
1657: and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
1658: firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
1659: them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
1660: sessions. Our
1661: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
1662: protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
1663: it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
1664: network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
1665: firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
1666: the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
1667: <p>
1668: The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
1669: 90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
1670: Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
1671: Redundancy Protocol); on
1672: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
1673: March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
1674: "Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
1675: that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
1676: standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
1677: IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
1678: though there was a patent in the space. Why?
1679: <a href="http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/documents/standards/general-comms/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
1680: There was much deliberation</a>
1681: at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
1682: politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
1683: standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
1684: (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
1685: programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
1686: RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
1687: the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
1688: and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
1689: eh?
1690: <p>
1691: Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
1692: (HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
1693: recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
1694: -- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
1695: claim patent rights.
1696: <p>
1697: On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
1698: lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
1699: its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
1700: impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
1701: implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
1702: Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
1703: small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
1704: against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
1705: members took note of our complaints,
1706: <a href="http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
1707: however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
1708: patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
1709: <p>
1710: A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
1711: to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
1712: and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
1713: backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
1714: avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
1.55 tom 1715: participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
1.30 deraadt 1716: Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
1717: is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
1718: like all others, except against the community.
1719: <p>
1720: Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
1721: benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
1722: <p>
1723: Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
1724: correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
1725: designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
1726: problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
1727: same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
1728: document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
1729: We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
1730: lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
1731: it to use cryptography.
1732: <p>
1733: The combination of
1734: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
1735: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
1736: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
1737: has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
1738: have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
1739: running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
1740: group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
1741: our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
1742: to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
1743: this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
1744: <p>
1745: As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
1746: regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
1747: for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
1748: to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
1749: were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
1750: anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
1751: We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
1752: these decisions, but they declined to reply.
1753: <p>
1754: This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
1755: this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
1756: <br>
1757: </em>
1758: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1759: <br>
1760: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1761: <br>
1762: <br>
1763: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1764: Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
1765: <br>
1766: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1767: A what?
1768: <br>
1769: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1770: A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
1771: <br>
1772: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1773: Well, it's free isn't it?
1774: <br>
1775: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1776: Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
1777: <br>
1778: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1779: What?
1780: <br>
1781: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1782: He is an.... redundancy protocol.
1783: <br>
1784: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1785: CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
1786: <br>
1787: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1788: Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
1789: they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
1790: <br>
1791: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1792: You must be a looney.
1793: <br>
1794: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1795: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
1796: because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
1797: that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
1798: standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
1799: on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
1800: Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
1801: patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
1802: companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
1803: bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
1804: <br>
1805: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1806: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
1807: <br>
1808: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1809: Yes.
1810: <br>
1811: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1812: For a free redundancy protocol?
1813: <br>
1814: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1815: Yes.
1816: <br>
1817: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1818: You are a looney.
1819: <br>
1820: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1821: Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
1822: patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
1823: VRRP.
1824: <br>
1825: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1826: You don't need a license for your VRRP.
1827: <br>
1828: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1.32 otto 1829: I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
1.30 deraadt 1830: <br>
1831: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1832: There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
1833: <br>
1834: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1835: Yes there is!
1836: <br>
1837: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1838: Isn't!
1839: <br>
1840: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1841: Is!
1842: <br>
1843: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1844: Isn't!
1845: <br>
1846: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1847: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
1848: <br>
1849: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1850: This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
1851: out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
1852: <br>
1853: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1854: The man didn't have the right form.
1855: <br>
1856: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1857: What man?
1858: <br>
1859: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1860: Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
1861: <br>
1862: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1863: The looney detector van, you mean.
1864: <br>
1865: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1866: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
1867: <br>
1868: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1869: What redundancy detector van?
1870: <br>
1871: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1872: The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
1873: <br>
1874: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1875: Cizzz-coeee?
1876: <br>
1877: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1878: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
1879: so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
1880: pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
1881: being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
1882: <br>
1883: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1.34 otto 1884: How much did you pay for that?
1.30 deraadt 1885: <br>
1886: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1887: Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
1888: <br>
1889: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1890: What PIX?
1891: <br>
1892: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1893: The PIX I'm replacing!
1894: <br>
1895: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1896: So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
1897: license it?
1898: <br>
1899: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1900: There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
1901: protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
1902: <br>
1903: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1904: No they didn't!
1905: <br>
1906: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1907: Did!
1908: <br>
1909: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1910: Didn't!
1911: <br>
1912: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1913: Did, did, did and did!
1914: <br>
1915: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1916: Oh, all right.
1917: <br>
1918: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1919: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
1920: license?
1921: <br>
1922: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1923: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
1924: <br>
1925: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1926: In that case, give me a Firewall License.
1927: <br>
1928: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1929: A license?
1930: <br>
1931: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1932: Yes.
1933: <br>
1934: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1935: For your firewall?
1936: <br>
1937: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1938: No.
1939: <br>
1940: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1941: No?
1942: <br>
1943: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1944: No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
1945: <br>
1946: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1947: You're off your chump.
1948: <br>
1949: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1950: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
1.43 deraadt 1951: to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
1.30 deraadt 1952: semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
1953: listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
1954: <br>
1955: <br>
1956: A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
1957: <br>
1958: VRRP, philosophically,<br>
1959: must ipso facto standard be<br>
1960: But standard it<br>
1961: needs to be free<br>
1962: vis a vis<br>
1963: the IETF<br>
1964: you see?<br>
1965: <br>
1966: But can VRRP<br>
1967: be said to be<br>
1968: or not to be<br>
1969: a standard, see,<br>
1970: when VRRP can not be free,<br>
1971: due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
1972: <br>
1973: Singing...<br>
1974: <br>
1975: La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
1976: VRRP ain't free.<br>
1977: O P E N B S D<br>
1978: CARP is free<br>
1979: <br>
1980: Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
1981: let through IETF to mean<br>
1982: my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
1983: No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
1984: <br>
1985: Fiddle dee dum,<br>
1986: Fiddle dee dee,<br>
1987: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1988: <br>
1989: 1 1 2,<br>
1990: Tee Hee Hee,<br>
1991: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1992: <br>
1993: My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
1994: bisected accidentally,<br>
1995: one summer afternoon by me.<br>
1996: Redundancy's good when free.<br>
1997: <br>
1998: Redundancy must be free.<br>
1999: Redundancy must be free.<br>
2000: <br>
2001: The End<br>
2002: <br>
2003: Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
2004: <br>
2005: No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
2006: <br>
2007: Geddy must be free.<br>
2008: <br>
2009: <br>
2010: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2011: <img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
1.30 deraadt 2012: </td></tr></table>
2013: <p>
2014: <em>
2015: <font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
2016: Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
2017: <br>
1.34 otto 2018: <font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
1.30 deraadt 2019: Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
1.37 deraadt 2020: Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
1.30 deraadt 2021: Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
2022: Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
2023: <br>
2024: <br>
2025: </em>
2026:
2027: <hr>
1.20 deraadt 2028: <a name=34></a>
1.33 deraadt 2029: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
2030: 3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
1.20 deraadt 2031: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2032: <tr>
2033: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 2034: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2035: OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2036: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2037: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2038: 3:30 minutes
2039: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
2040: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2041: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2042: <a href="images/Hood.gif">
2043: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
1.20 deraadt 2044: <br>
2045: <br>
2046: <em>
2047: Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
1.26 deraadt 2048: the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
1.20 deraadt 2049: forces of the draconian government!
2050: <p>
2051: <br>
2052: As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
2053: making release artwork and music which are allegorical
2054: of recent happenings.
2055: <p>
2056: Two years ago we became involved with the University
2057: of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
2058: security research and development .. on things that
2059: we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
2060: wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
2061: DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
2062: credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
2063: a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
2064: promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
2065: was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
1.21 deraadt 2066: than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
1.20 deraadt 2067: forces of government, and needed to be careful.
2068: <p>
2069: A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
2070: and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
2071: they also aggressively backed out of contractual
2072: obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
1.67 jolan 2073: this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
1.20 deraadt 2074: because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
1.55 tom 2075: newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
1.20 deraadt 2076: making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
2077: theft of oil.
2078: <p>
2079: The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
2080: DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
2081: <p>
2082: "As a result of the DARPA review of the
2083: project, and due to world events and the evolving
2084: threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
2085: the Government on April 21 advised the University
2086: to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
2087: the project."
2088: <p>
2089: That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
2090: We had lost financial support, but the release of the
2091: statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
2092: of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
2093: <p>
2094: Since the termination came near natural contract
2095: termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
2096: than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
2097: stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
2098: we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
1.61 grunk 2099: proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
1.20 deraadt 2100: "Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
2101: developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
2102: <p>
2103: We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
2104: we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
2105: of Robin Hood.
2106: </em>
2107: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2108: <br>
2109: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2110: <br>
2111: Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
2112: Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
2113: He had found the crusades<br>
2114: were an endless charade<br>
2115: So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
2116: <br>
2117: <br>
2118: One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
2119: Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
2120: Clever chums they did find<br>
2121: other fish of their kind<br>
2122: Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
2123: <br>
2124: <br>
2125: Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
2126: The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
2127: With CD's and their freedom<br>
2128: for to share online<br>
2129: And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
2130: <br>
2131: <br>
2132: So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
2133: and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
2134: Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
2135: to the teaming schools<br>
2136: Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
2137: <br>
2138: <br>
2139: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2140: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2141: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2142: So raise up your glass and<br>
2143: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2144: Fish for never running<br>
2145: and making something good!<br>
2146: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2147: <br>
2148: <br>
2149: Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
2150: The Hood's a bad ball<br>
2151: Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
2152: He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
2153: Think he's a hero?<br>
2154: Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
1.24 deraadt 2155: He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
1.20 deraadt 2156: Read the Wanted poster<br>
2157: of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
2158: We gettin' back the booty<br>
2159: or we take away your worms too<br>
2160: <br>
2161: <br>
2162: Yo! Word to the classes<br>
2163: Put on your glasses<br>
2164: I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
2165: Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
2166: He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
2167: I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
2168: who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
2169: And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
2170: happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
2171: No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
2172: and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
2173: <br>
2174: <br>
2175: Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
1.25 deraadt 2176: The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
1.20 deraadt 2177: And took back all the booty<br>
2178: Puff intended for the poor<br>
2179: The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
2180: <br>
2181: <br>
2182: Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
2183: And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
2184: He loaded all the loot<br>
2185: to give it back and big surprise<br>
2186: He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
2187: <br>
2188: <br>
2189: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2190: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2191: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2192: So raise up your glass and<br>
2193: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2194: Fish for never running<br>
2195: and making something good!<br>
2196: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2197: <br>
2198:
2199: <br>
2200: <br>
2201: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2202: <img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
1.20 deraadt 2203: </td></tr></table>
2204: <p>
2205: <em>
2206: Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
2207: Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2208: <br>
2209: Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
2210: <br>
2211: Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
1.55 tom 2212: Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
1.20 deraadt 2213: <br>
2214: Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
2215: Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
2216: <br>
2217: </em>
2218:
1.23 jose 2219: <br>
2220: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 2221: <a name=33></a>
1.33 deraadt 2222: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
2223: 3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2224: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2225: <tr>
2226: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2227: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2228: OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2229: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2230: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2231: 4:00 minutes
2232: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
2233: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2234: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2235: <a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
2236: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
1.12 deraadt 2237: <br>
2238: <br>
1.14 deraadt 2239: <em>
1.69 deraadt 2240: Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
2241: face some pretty crazy challenges.
1.12 deraadt 2242: <br>
1.69 deraadt 2243: This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
2244: we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
2245: request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
2246: III processors. We want documentation, because
2247: these are the fastest processors with a per-page
2248: eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
2249: our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
2250: the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
2251: this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
1.36 deraadt 2252: mode.<br>
2253: <br>
2254: And it is going to be faster...<br>
1.12 deraadt 2255: </em>
1.11 deraadt 2256: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2257: Deep through the mists of time<br>
2258: Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
2259: Back to the age of darkness<br>
2260: Black was the protocol<br>
2261: <p>
2262: A King ruled the web with fear<br>
2263: Spilling the blood of men<br>
2264: Then from the ocean came<br>
2265: Puff the Barbarian<br>
1.17 deraadt 2266: <br>
2267: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2268: Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
2269: Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
2270: Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
2271: Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
2272: <p>
2273: Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
2274: A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
2275: Constraints were slain as well<br>
2276: Hacked his way out to the C<br>
2277: <p>
2278: And there he found<br>
2279: His destiny<br>
2280: Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
2281: "Xor taking care of me"<br>
2282: <p>
2283: Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
2284: "Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
2285: Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
2286: Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
2287: <p>
2288: At the tower Puff appealed<br>
2289: For the wisdom of the One<br>
2290: Denied, his mind did reel<br>
2291: Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
2292: <p>
2293: Broke down the guard<br>
2294: Cause math is hard<br>
1.18 deraadt 2295: Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
1.11 deraadt 2296: All alone and only bones<br>
2297: <p>
2298: Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
2299: Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
2300: And Puff, the land secured<br>
2301: The new King Barbarian!<br>
2302: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2303: <img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
1.11 deraadt 2304: </td></tr></table>
2305: <p>
2306: <em>
2307: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
2308: Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2309: <br>
2310: Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
2311: drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2312: </em>
2313:
2314: <br>
2315: <hr>
1.9 millert 2316: <a name=32></a>
1.33 deraadt 2317: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
2318: 3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2319: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2320: <tr>
2321: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2322: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2323: OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2324: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2325: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2326: 3:00 minutes
2327: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
2328: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2329: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2330: <a href="images/MrPond.gif">
2331: <img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2332: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.9 millert 2333: Goldflipper<br>
2334: With golden skin<br>
2335: and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
2336: He's the machine<br>
2337: Designed to dismember your life<br>
2338: <p>
2339: And the fish<br>
2340: Protecting us all from the cat<br>
2341: And the cat<br>
2342: Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
2343: <p>
2344: Cyborg on a mission<br>
2345: To do some Puff fishin'<br>
2346: The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
2347: <p>
2348: (short instrumental intro)
1.1 deraadt 2349: <p>
1.9 millert 2350: You'll need some machismo to<br>
2351: catch the spikey one<br>
2352: He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
2353: make the system run<br>
1.1 deraadt 2354: <p>
1.9 millert 2355: But Flip's here for fun<br>
2356: and without a gun<br>
2357: He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
1.1 deraadt 2358: <p>
1.9 millert 2359: She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
2360: such a sexy catch<br>
2361: Is she spying on him or<br>
2362: just a seafood match?<br>
1.1 deraadt 2363: <p>
1.9 millert 2364: Oh double seven<br>
2365: Send me to Heaven<br>
2366: Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
1.1 deraadt 2367: <p>
1.9 millert 2368: The women are fond<br>
2369: She knows what to do<br>
2370: She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
1.1 deraadt 2371: <p>
1.9 millert 2372: Goldflipper is gone<br>
2373: Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
1.11 deraadt 2374: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2375: <br>
2376: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2377: <p>
2378: <em>
1.9 millert 2379: Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.1 deraadt 2380: <br>
1.9 millert 2381: Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
2382: Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
2383: Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
1.1 deraadt 2384: </em>
2385:
2386: <br>
2387: <hr>
1.3 ian 2388: <a name=31></a>
1.33 deraadt 2389: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
2390: 3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2391: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2392: <tr>
2393: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2394: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2395: OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2396: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2397: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2398: 3:00 minutes
2399: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2400: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2401: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2402: <a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
2403: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2404: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2405: BSD fight buffer reign<br>
2406: Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
2407: Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
2408: Puffy rip attacker out<br>
2409: <p>
2410: Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2411: Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2412: <p>
2413: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2414: Über tragic<br>
2415: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2416: <p>
2417: Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
2418: Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
2419: Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
2420: Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
1.11 deraadt 2421: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2422: <p>
2423: Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2424: Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2425: <p>
2426: Chorus
2427: <p>
2428: Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
2429: Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
2430: Penguin lurking under bed<br>
2431: Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
2432: <p>
2433: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2434: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2435: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2436: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2437: <p>
2438: Chorus<br>
1.11 deraadt 2439: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2440: <p>
2441: <em>
1.3 ian 2442: Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
1.1 deraadt 2443: Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
2444: drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
2445: <br>
1.3 ian 2446: Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
1.1 deraadt 2447: <br>
2448: Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2449: </em>
2450:
1.8 millert 2451: <br>
2452: <hr>
1.9 millert 2453: <a name=30></a>
1.33 deraadt 2454: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
2455: 3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2456: <p>
2457: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
2458: <tr>
1.76 deraadt 2459: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2460: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2461: OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2462: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2463: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2464: 3:00 minutes
2465: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2466: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2467: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2468: <a href="images/Rock.jpg">
2469: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2470: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2471: <br>
2472: <br>
1.9 millert 2473: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
2474: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1.8 millert 2475: <p>
1.9 millert 2476: During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
2477: OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
1.8 millert 2478: <p>
1.9 millert 2479: I'm secure by default<br>
1.8 millert 2480: <p>
1.27 deraadt 2481: They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
1.9 millert 2482: deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
1.8 millert 2483: <p>
1.9 millert 2484: RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
1.8 millert 2485: <p>
1.16 deraadt 2486: Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
1.9 millert 2487: I'm secure by default<br>
2488: stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
1.8 millert 2489: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2490: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.8 millert 2491: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2492: </td></tr></table>
2493: <p>
1.8 millert 2494: <em>
1.9 millert 2495: By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
2496: <br>
2497: Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
1.35 nick 2498: John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
1.9 millert 2499: <br>
2500: Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
1.8 millert 2501: <br>
1.9 millert 2502: Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
1.8 millert 2503: </em>
2504:
1.1 deraadt 2505: <hr>
1.79 deraadt 2506: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="OpenBSD"></a>
2507: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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