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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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1.71 deraadt 55: </a>
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: </td></tr></table>
1.20 deraadt 68: <p>
1.104 deraadt 69:
70: <hr>
71: <a name=44></a>
72: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="44.html">
73: 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a></font></h2>
74: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
75: <tr>
76: <td valign="top" width="33%">
77: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.4 or other items]</a><br>
78: OpenBSD 4.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
79: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
80: <br>
81: 3:05 minutes
82: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
83: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.ogg">(OGG 4.4MB)</a><br>
84: <br>
85: <a href="images/SourceWars.jpg">
86: <img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/SourceWars.jpg"></a>
87: <br>
88: <br>
89: <em>
90: Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of
91: the Berkeley Unix distributions for the
92: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565925823/openbsdA/">
93: O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"</a>.
94: We recommend you read his story, entitled
95: <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html">
96: "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
97: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable"</a>
98: first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here.
99: Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has
100: probably not been read by enough people.
101: <br>
102: <br>
103: The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were
104: not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear.
105: But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase
106: of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting
107: than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which
108: hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period.
109: But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so
110: much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had
111: lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid?
112: <br>
113: <br>
114: After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had
115: already been replaced by university researchers and their associates.
116: So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group)
117: started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest.
118: Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX
119: conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these
120: rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by
121: piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs.
122: Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like
123: Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more.
124: <br>
125: <br>
1.105 deraadt 126: Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit more careful
1.104 deraadt 127: checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which
128: was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source
129: code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice).
130: <br>
131: <br>
132: Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system
133: based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories
134: (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB.
135: Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the
136: lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments
137: (and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite.
138: Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for
139: a lot less than <a href=orders.html>$1000 per copy</a>).
140: <br>
141: <br>
142: The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick,
143: and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.
144: <br>
145: </em>
146: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
147: <br>
148: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
149: <br>
150: <center>
151: <br>
152: Source Wars<br>
153: Episode IV<br>
154: Trial of the BSD Knights<br>
155: </center>
156: <br>
157: Not so very long ago<br>
158: and not so far away<br>
159: AT&T made system code<br>
160: and gave some bits away<br>
161: <br>
162: Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it<br>
163: better, faster, more diverse<br>
164: This open thing was wonderful<br>
165: for everyone on Earth<br>
166: <br>
167: And then the roaring 90's came<br>
168: The Empire changed its mind<br>
169: And good old greed was back again<br>
170: The geeks were in a legal bind<br>
171: <br>
172: The Empire's Unix Lab<br>
173: sued BSDi from above<br>
174: The code is free but<br>
175: only we can sell it bub!<br>
176: <br>
177: The University came calling<br>
178: in full protective mode<br>
1.106 deraadt 179: and proved the source in Net/2<br>
1.104 deraadt 180: didn't use the Empire's code<br>
181: <br>
182: Then Bostic brought the Empire's books<br>
183: n' slammed them dandys down<br>
184: And showed the giant chunks<br>
185: of BSD code all around<br>
186: <br>
187: They didn't even give an ounce<br>
188: of credit front to back<br>
189: This broke the license USL<br>
190: was using to attack<br>
191: <br>
192: The case was thrown out by the judge<br>
193: and "settled" out of court<br>
194: And UCB was big enough<br>
195: to take it like a sport<br>
196: <br>
197: And to this day the geekfolk say<br>
198: Now did we win or lose?<br>
199: They shoulda made 'em reprint<br>
200: every book with proper dues<br>
201: <br>
202: And take out ads in major rags<br>
203: apologetically<br>
204: And maybe now it wouldn't be<br>
205: the same monopoly<br>
206: <br>
207: The Empire might have tumbled<br>
208: down if everybody saw<br>
209: How greed became so big<br>
210: they couldn't see that glaring flaw<br>
211: <br>
212: But only one community<br>
213: the one that makes it tick<br>
214: Is there to fight for everyone<br>
215: exposing hypocrites<br>
216: <br>
217: And OpenBSD is here<br>
218: to tell the story right<br>
219: Once again the fight is fought<br>
220: and kept in shining light<br>
221: <br>
222: And may the source be with you<br>
223: May the Empire fall apart<br>
224: Ya like that's gonna happen!<br>
225: But we gotta keep heart!<br>
226: <br>
227: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
228: <img width=395 height=1800 src="images/44song.jpg"><br>
229: </td></tr></table>
230: <p>
231: <em>
232: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka.
233: Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey.
234: Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis.
235: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-617-2864).
236: <br>
237: <br>
238: </em>
1.20 deraadt 239:
240: <hr>
1.95 deraadt 241: <a name=43></a>
242: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="43.html">
243: 4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"</a></font></h2>
244: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
245: <tr>
246: <td valign="top" width="33%">
247: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.3 or other items]</a><br>
248: OpenBSD 4.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
249: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
250: <br>
251: 4:48 minutes
252: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.mp3">(MP3 8.2MB)</a>
253: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.ogg">(OGG 6.5MB)</a><br>
254: <br>
255: <a href="images/Cryptonaut.jpg">
256: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Cryptonaut" src="images/Cryptonaut.jpg"></a>
257: <br>
258: <br>
259: <em>
260: We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man
261: who is a lot like
262: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/">Naomi Campbell</a>.
263: <br>
264: <br>
265: In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at
1.102 deraadt 266: Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans
267: (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from
268: his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted
1.95 deraadt 269: to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from
270: the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue
1.96 deraadt 271: and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto
1.95 deraadt 272: the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane.
273: After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed
274: onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few
275: OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby,
276: so we have an accurate story of the events.
277: <br>
278: <br>
279: This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us
280: about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes
281: it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he
282: has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone.
283: He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him
284: alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
285: <br>
286: <br>
287: We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We
288: remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a
289: requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of
290: free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's
291: in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful
292: influence which he could use so falsely.
293: <br>
294: <br>
295: We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our "ports" tree
296: builds software that is 'found on the net' into packages that
297: OpenBSD users can use more easily. A scaffold of Makefiles and
298: scripts automatically fetch these pieces of software, apply
299: patches as required by OpenBSD, and then build them into nice
300: neat little tarballs. This is provided as a convenience for
1.97 okan 301: users. The ports tree is maintained by OpenBSD entirely separately
1.95 deraadt 302: from our main source tree. Some of the software which is fetched
303: and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.
304: All the other operating system projects make exactly the same
305: decision, and provide these same conveniences to their users.
306: <br>
307: <br>
308: Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free.
309: He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically, yet
310: he said nothing to the many other vendors who do the same; many of
311: them donate to the FSF and perhaps that has something to do with it.
312: Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official
313: GNU software -- including Emacs -- compiles and runs on Windows.
314: <br>
315: <br>
316: That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some
317: people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not
318: follow their own stupid rules.
319: </em>
320: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
321: <br>
322: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
323: <br>
324:
325: <br>
326: Puffy and the mighty Cryptonauts<br>
327: Trading with new lands by open C<br>
328: Corporate monsters, many closing passages<br>
329: Tempting harpies<br>
330: 13 years of treachery<br>
331: <br>
332: <br>
333: Journey's over, welcome home the heroes<br>
334: Offering the bounty of their trade<br>
335: Useful clothing spun from the golden fleece<br>
336: For the people, free and very strongly made<br>
337: <br>
338: <br>
339: But something's wrong with them<br>
340: They will not take our free wares<br>
341: "What's the matter good people?<br>
1.99 deraadt 342: Why are you so scared?<br>
343: Why?"<br>
1.95 deraadt 344: <br>
345: <br>
346: Then one brave soul spoke out<br>
347: "We're not allowed to take your gifts<br>
1.98 okan 348: Hypocrites has spoken<br>
1.95 deraadt 349: There are many new laws"<br>
350: <br>
351: <br>
1.98 okan 352: Hypocrites appears<br>
1.95 deraadt 353: "Puffy!<br>
354: You must obey my new rules!"<br>
355: <br>
356: <br>
357: "First rule one dictates<br>
358: You cannot give your code away"<br>
359: <br>
360: <br>
361: (In Greek) To your health, Nick, great bouzouki player and cool dude.<br>
362: <br>
363: <br>
364: "And rule two dictates<br>
365: You must give it to me<br>
366: So I can give it away properly for free"<br>
367: <br>
368: <br>
369: "The list goes on of course<br>
370: But for traders this is all you need"<br>
371: <br>
372: <br>
373: "This is madness!<br>
374: He has lost his mind!<br>
375: This defies the first law of free trade<br>
376: Rule zero came before this rule one<br>
377: Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone"<br>
378: <br>
379: <br>
380: Then Hypocrites goes mad.<br>
381: <br>
382: <br>
383: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
384: <img width=395 height=1720 src="images/43song.gif"><br>
385: </td></tr></table>
386: <p>
387: <em>
388: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
389: Nikkos Diochnos. Vocals and bouzouki by Nikkos Diochnos. Baglama,
390: second bouzouki, violin, bass, and drum programming by Stelios Pulos,
1.101 naddy 391: né Jonathan Lewis. Guitar by Methodios Valtiotis, né Allen Baekeland.
392: Percussion by Pentelis Yiannikopulos, né Ben Johnson. Recorded, mixed,
1.95 deraadt 393: and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-617-2864).
394: <br>
395: <br>
396: </em>
397:
398: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 399: <a name=42></a>
400: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="42.html">
401: 4.2: "100001 1010101"</a></font></h2>
402: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
403: <tr>
404: <td valign="top" width="33%">
405: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.2 or other items]</a><br>
406: OpenBSD 4.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
407: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
408: <br>
409: 4:40 minutes
410: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.mp3">(MP3 4.0MB)</a>
411: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.ogg">(OGG 6.4MB)</a><br>
412: <br>
413: <a href="images/Marathon.jpg">
414: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Marathon" src="images/Marathon.jpg"></a>
415: <br>
416: <br>
417: <em>
418: Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do.
1.91 merdely 419: This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have
1.90 deraadt 420: remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software,
421: that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share
422: these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open
423: Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one
424: would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't
425: seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects
426: away from the ideals very quickly.
427: <p>
1.93 jmc 428: Much of any operating system's usability depends on device support,
1.91 merdely 429: and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices
1.90 deraadt 430: available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project
431: could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or
432: including binary objects in the operating system for which no source
433: code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden
434: inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset
435: of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about
436: getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.
437: <p>
438: Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals,
439: we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues,
1.91 merdely 440: resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much
1.90 deraadt 441: recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also
442: led to other issues.
443: <p>
444: We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used
445: by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often
446: than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still
447: properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the
448: same spirit that they were given in the first place.
449: <p>
450: That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our
451: stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal;
452: we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more
453: from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux
454: projects.
455: <p>
456: Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all
457: codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants
458: of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the
459: SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source
460: into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off
461: as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution
462: -- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who
463: have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself,
464: not for their agenda.
465: <p>
466: The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do
467: what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We
468: don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our
469: image. We are here to have fun doing right.
470: <p>
471: </em>
472: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
473: <br>
474: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
475: <br>
476: The starting line is nervous<br>
477: we burst upon the course<br>
478: Electric is our passion<br>
479: An open hearted force<br>
480: <br>
481: The water's full of dangers<br>
482: That interrupt the flow<br>
483: And soon the spirit splinters<br>
1.92 deraadt 484: as temptation takes its toll<br>
1.90 deraadt 485: <br>
486: *Give and get back some<br>
487: Sharing it all<br>
488: Path we know best<br>
489: we're having a ball<br>
490: Opulent mission<br>
491: Lost in our passion<br>
492: You can still choose<br>
493: If you don't swim to win<br>
494: you'll never lose*<br>
495: <br>
496: One Zero Zero Zero Zero One<br>
497: <br>
498: The window is a wall by now<br>
499: A sieve of sickened holes<br>
500: The water chicken stealing maps<br>
501: Mistaking us for foes<br>
502: <br>
503: The sun a son of Icarus<br>
504: Flies too close to itself<br>
505: Forbidden fruit is blinded<br>
506: by the toys upon the shelf<br>
507: <br>
508: *CHORUS*<br>
509: <br>
510: One Zero One Zero One Zero One<br>
511: <br>
512: Slow and steady wins they say<br>
513: but this is not a race<br>
514: It's not about who takes a prize<br>
515: for first or second place<br>
516: <br>
517: Imaginary rings of brass<br>
518: Were traded for real goals<br>
519: The vision and the mission lost<br>
520: For those with corporate souls<br>
521: <br>
522: *Give and get back some<br>
523: Sharing it all<br>
524: Path we know best<br>
525: we're having a ball<br>
526: Give and get zeros<br>
527: Give and get ones<br>
528: Given to you but<br>
529: Not you to us<br>
530: Opulent mission<br>
531: Lost in our passion<br>
532: You can still choose<br>
533: If you don't swim to win<br>
534: you'll never lose<br>
535: You'll never lose*<br>
536: <br>
537: <br>
538: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
539: <img width=396 height=1876 src="images/42song.gif"><br>
540: </td></tr></table>
541: <p>
542: <em>
543: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed and
544: mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
545: Vocals by Duncan McDonnald (www.thegreatgavalan.com). Drums by
546: John McNeil. Guitar by Jeff Drummond. Bass and keyboards by
547: Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and Theo de Raadt.
548: <br>
549: <br>
550: </em>
551:
552: <hr>
1.81 deraadt 553: <a name=41></a>
554: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
555: 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
556: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
557: <tr>
558: <td valign="top" width="33%">
559: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]</a><br>
560: OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
561: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
562: <br>
563: 4:19 minutes
564: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
565: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
566: <br>
567: <a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
568: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
569: <br>
570: <br>
571: <em>
572: As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
573: is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
574: useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
575: hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
576: that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
577: device support.
578: <p>
1.85 mbalmer 579: Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
1.81 deraadt 580: all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
581: interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
582: mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
583: time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
584: challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
585: of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
586: weird, or even buggy.
587: <p>
588: When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
589: become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
590: for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
591: the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
592: these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
593: from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
1.84 matthieu 594: documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
1.81 deraadt 595: actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
596: OpenBSD, either).
597: <p>
598: When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
599: our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
600: and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
601: unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
602: 20 years building
1.83 wvdputte 603: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
1.81 deraadt 604: political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
605: <p>
1.82 jsg 606: A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
1.87 tom 607: some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
1.81 deraadt 608: of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
609: into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
610: communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
611: requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
612: work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
613: would be fantastic by now.
614: <p>
615: We only ask that
1.83 wvdputte 616: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
1.81 deraadt 617: users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
618: </em>
619: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
620: <br>
621: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
622: <br>
623: Here's an old story ...<br>
624: <br>
625: <br>
626: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
627: We all know the details<br>
628: Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
629: some serious loot,<br>
630: and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
631: Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
632: The little guy who<br>
633: did the best with what he had<br>
634: <br>
635: <br>
636: Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
637: Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
638: in moderation<br>
639: Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
640: <br>
641: <br>
642: If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
643: never give him the password<br>
644: If he goes penguin on you,<br>
645: stop - being - his brother.<br>
646: When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
1.86 tom 647: A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
1.81 deraadt 648: So do the best with what you have<br>
649: <br>
650: <br>
651: Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
652: that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
653: But unlike Vendors,<br>
654: he at least keeps the door open<br>
655: <br>
656: <br>
657: Vendors of water that should be free<br>
658: Look upon their words and despair<br>
659: Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
660: then made him better off dead<br>
661: Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
662: <br>
663: <br>
664: Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
665: The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
666: and left us with open source (sores)<br>
667: sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
668: for each consecutive cut<br>
669: But with the salty water of labour<br>
670: parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
671: <br>
672: <br>
673: It's not whether you're well off<br>
674: it's where you dig the well<br>
675: The best the little guy can do is what<br>
676: the little guy does right<br>
677: <br>
678: <br>
679: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
680: <img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
681: </td></tr></table>
682: <p>
683: <em>
684: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
685: (1-403-233-0350). Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
686: <br>
687: <br>
688: </em>
689:
690: <hr>
1.76 deraadt 691: <a name=audio_extra></a>
692: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
693: "OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
694: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
695: <tr>
696: <td valign="top" width="33%">
697: <a href="orders.html">[Order the OpenBSD audio CD or other items]</a><br>
698: These are the lyrics for the extra track on the OpenBSD Audio CD.<br>
699: <br>
700: 4:00 minutes
701: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
702: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
703: <br>
704: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
705: <br>
706: <br>
707: <em>
708: This is an <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
709: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.
710: <p>
711: This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
712: and music for each OpenBSD release.
713: Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
714: going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
715: </em>
716: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
717: <br>
718: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
719: Be Open<br>
720: Be Vocal<br>
721: Stay Open<br>
722: Stay Vocal<br>
723: <br>
724: (repeat)<br>
725: <br>
726: OpenBSD<br>
727: <br>
728: Twice a year,<br>
729: me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
730: at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
731: and take strips out of liars.<br>
732: He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
733: He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
734: button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
1.78 deraadt 735: on the systematicalifornication<br>
1.76 deraadt 736: and a license application<br>
737: is a fishybomination<br>
738: and a random allocation<br>
739: got a copywritten melanoma<br>
740: sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
741: OK stop.<br>
742: I get it.<br>
743: Some asshole lied.<br>
744: <br>
745: And then he says,<br>
1.78 deraadt 746: "The crashorama villaination<br>
1.76 deraadt 747: lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
748: the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
749: in the cyber cider documation<br>
750: universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
751: cohabitationizizingation"<br>
752: OK stop.<br>
753: I get it.<br>
754: <a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
755: Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
756: but he was only open for business.<br></a>
757: I get it.<br>
758: Where's my pencils?<br>
759: Bring me my mic!<br>
760: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
761: Be Open<br>
762: Be Vocal<br>
763: Stay Open<br>
764: Stay Vocal<br>
765: <br>
766: (repeat)<br>
767: <br>
768: Then he has another beer and<br>
769: gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
770: Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
771: And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
772: the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
773: where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
774: a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
775: and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
776: or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
777: and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
778: And squeeze in five concepts<br>
779: every time, every song!<br>
780: And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
781: if I draw the device wrong!<br>
782: "It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
783: And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
784: cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
785: <br>
786: (beat boxin')<br>
787: <br>
788: <br>
789: </td></tr></table>
790: <p>
791: <em>
792: <br>
793: </em>
794:
795: <hr>
796: <a name=40></a>
797: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
798: 4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
799: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
800: <tr>
801: <td valign="top" width="33%">
802: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.0 or other items]</a><br>
803: OpenBSD 4.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
804: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
805: <br>
806: 2:40 minutes
807: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
808: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
809: <br>
810: <a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
811: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
812: <br>
813: <br>
814: <em>
815: The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
1.77 deraadt 816: resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
1.76 deraadt 817: servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
1.77 deraadt 818: sells to continue our development goals.
1.76 deraadt 819: <br>
820: <br>
821: While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
1.77 deraadt 822: around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
823: or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
1.76 deraadt 824: the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
825: approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
826: the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
827: write and record a song that also matches the theme.
828: <br>
829: <br>
830: Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
831: so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
832: <br>
833: <br>
834: This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
835: try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
836: instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
837: write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
838: that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
1.77 deraadt 839: <br>
840: <br>
1.76 deraadt 841: OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
842: with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
1.77 deraadt 843: of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
844: songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
845: under such duress that much of our code gets written.
1.76 deraadt 846: <br>
847: <br>
848: We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
849: Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
850: returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
851: other developers.
852: </em>
853: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
854: <br>
855: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
856: <br>
857: <br>
858: <br>
859: Humppa negala<br>
860: Humppa negala<br>
861: Humppa negala<br>
862: Venismechah<br>
863: <br>
864: Humppa negala<br>
865: Humppa negala<br>
866: Humppa negala<br>
867: Venismechah<br>
868: <br>
869: Humppa neranenah<br>
870: Humppa neranenah<br>
871: Humppa neranenah<br>
872: Venismechah<br>
873: <br>
874: Humppa neranenah<br>
875: Humppa neranenah<br>
876: Humppa neranenah<br>
877: Venismechah<br>
878: <br>
879: Uru, uru achim!<br>
880: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
881: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
882: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
883: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
884: uru achim!<br>
885: uru achim!<br>
886: OpenBSD!<br>
887: <br>
888: <br>
889: (circus torture)<br>
890: <br>
891: <br>
892: Humppa negala<br>
893: Humppa negala<br>
894: Humppa negala<br>
895: Venismechah<br>
896: <br>
897: Humppa negala<br>
898: Humppa negala<br>
899: Humppa negala<br>
900: Venismechah<br>
901: <br>
902: Humppa neranenah<br>
903: Humppa neranenah<br>
904: Humppa neranenah<br>
905: Venismechah<br>
906: <br>
907: Humppa neranenah<br>
908: Humppa neranenah<br>
909: Humppa neranenah<br>
910: Venismechah<br>
911: <br>
912: Uru, uru achim!<br>
913: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
914: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
915: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
916: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
917: uru achim!<br>
918: uru achim!<br>
919: OpenBSD!<br>
920: <br>
921: <br>
922: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
923: <img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
924: </td></tr></table>
925: <p>
926: <em>
1.90 deraadt 927: Based on the traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
1.76 deraadt 928: Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
929: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
930: (1-403-233-0350). Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
1.94 tobias 931: Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.76 deraadt 932: <br>
933: <br>
934: </em>
935:
936: <hr>
1.63 deraadt 937: <a name=39></a>
1.64 jolan 938: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
1.63 deraadt 939: 3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
940: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
941: <tr>
942: <td valign="top" width="33%">
943: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.9 or other items]</a><br>
944: OpenBSD 3.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
945: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
946: <br>
1.76 deraadt 947: 4:00 minutes
948: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
949: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.63 deraadt 950: <br>
1.76 deraadt 951: <a href="images/Blob.jpg">
952: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
1.63 deraadt 953: <br>
954: <br>
955: <em>
956: OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
957: is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
958: without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
959: obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
960: and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
961: for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
962: <br>
963: <br>
964: Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
965: cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
966: <br>
967: <br>
968: But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
969: quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
970: no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
971: can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
972: <br>
973: <br>
974: <ul>
975: <li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
976: at any time.<br>
977: <br>
978: <li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
979: <br>
980: <li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
981: <br>
982: <li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
983: <br>
984: <li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
985: <br>
986: <li>
987: Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
988: less portable.<br>
989: <br>
990: <li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
991: </ul>
992: <br>
993: <br>
994: This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
995: source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
996: new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
997: vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
998: the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
999: assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
1000: </em>
1001: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1002: <br>
1003: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1004: <br><br><br>
1005: Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
1006: when we found him on the beach,<br>
1007: there was nothin' shady<br>
1008: you could bounce him on your knee<br>
1009: like a ba-ba-ball<br>
1010: and his first little word was adorable<br>
1011: <br>
1012: He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1013: blah blah blah<br>
1014: Blah!<br>
1015: <br>
1016: <br>
1017: Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
1018: But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
1019: <br>
1020: <br>
1021: Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
1022: He could get your motor runnin'<br>
1023: with a drop of goo<br>
1024: He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
1025: But by the time he graduated<br>
1026: Blob was business slime!<br>
1027: <br>
1028: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1029: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1030: blah blah<br>
1031: <br>
1032: <br>
1033: He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
1034: <br>
1035: <br>
1036: Now everybody had it<br>
1037: they was drivin' around<br>
1038: They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
1039: for convenience now<br>
1040: Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
1041: And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
1042: <br>
1043: <br>
1044: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1045: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1046: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1047: blah blah<br>
1048: <br>
1049: <br>
1050: It's linkin' time!<br>
1051: <br>
1052: <br>
1053: Now it was out of control<br>
1054: n' fishy's came to depend<br>
1055: on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
1056: Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
1057: Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
1058: <br>
1059: <br>
1060: He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1061: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1062: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1063: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1064: B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
1065: <br>
1066: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1067: Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
1.63 deraadt 1068: And he battled the Blob<br>
1069: who had crossed the line<br>
1070: He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
1071: I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
1072: <br>
1073: <br>
1074: But it was too late!<br>
1075: Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
1076: He wants your video!<br>
1077: Ya he wants your net!<br>
1078: He wants your drive!<br>
1079: He wants it all!!<br>
1080: <br>
1081: <br>
1082: Somebody help us!<br>
1083: Noooooooo!<br>
1084: NVIDIA!<br>
1085: Intel!<br>
1086: Atheros!<br>
1087: 3-Ware!<br>
1088: VIA!<br>
1089: ATI!<br>
1090: Broadcom!<br>
1091: TI!<br>
1092: Myricom!<br>
1093: HighPoint!<br>
1094: Adaptec!<br>
1095: Mylex!<br>
1096: ICP Vortex!<br>
1097: and IBM!<br>
1098: Takin' over the world!<br>
1099: <br>
1100: <br>
1101: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1102: <img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
1.63 deraadt 1103: </td></tr></table>
1104: <p>
1105: <em>
1106: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1107: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
1108: Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
1109: Theo de Raadt.
1110: Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
1111: Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
1112: Drums by Jim Buick.
1113: <br>
1114: <br>
1115: </em>
1116:
1117: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 1118: <a name=38></a>
1119: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
1120: 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
1121: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1122: <tr>
1123: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1124: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]</a><br>
1125: OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1126: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1127: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1128: 4:24 minutes
1129: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
1130: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
1131: Instrumental version
1132: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
1133: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
1.58 deraadt 1134: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1135: <a href="images/Jones.jpg">
1136: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
1.58 deraadt 1137: <br>
1138: <br>
1139: <em>
1140: For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
1141: out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
1142: programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
1143: their devices.
1144: <p>
1145: Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
1146: for the
1.70 steven 1147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1148: Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
1149: They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
1150: for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
1151: affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
1152: course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
1.59 jolan 1153: bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
1154: issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
1155: cannot solve these issues.
1.58 deraadt 1156: <p>
1157: The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
1158: of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
1159: public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
1160: different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
1161: development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
1162: "quality" to show its head.
1163: <p>
1164: RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
1165: <br>
1166: <ul>
1.60 pvalchev 1167: <li>Redundancy
1.58 deraadt 1168: <li>Repair
1169: </ul>
1170: You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
1.60 pvalchev 1171: fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
1172: array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
1.58 deraadt 1173: itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
1174: <p>
1175: Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
1176: sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
1177: so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
1178: never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
1179: <p>
1180: Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
1181: tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
1.67 jolan 1182: is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
1.58 deraadt 1183: we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
1184: <p>
1185: And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
1186: vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
1187: the AMI controllers.
1188: <p>
1189: There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
1190: rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
1191: basic RAID management:
1192: <ul>
1193: <li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
1194: <li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
1195: <li>Being able to silence the buzzer
1196: <li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
1197: </ul>
1198: <p>
1199: The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
1200: And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
1201: all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
1202: <p>
1203: Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
1204: work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
1205: or do some reverse engineering for their products.
1206: <p>
1.60 pvalchev 1207: But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
1208: ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
1.58 deraadt 1209: controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
1210: may mean we can never get documentation for the
1.70 steven 1211: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1212: controllers.
1213: The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
1214: would not get documentation, either.
1215: 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
1216: look saintly.
1217: <p>
1218: Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
1219: in OpenBSD, please buy
1220: <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
1221: RAID cards. And everything
1.88 miod 1222: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
1.58 deraadt 1223: will just work</a>.
1224: <p>
1225: And keep pestering the other vendors.
1226: <br>
1227: </em>
1228: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1229: <br>
1230: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1231: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1232: Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
1233: <br>
1234: Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
1235: <br>
1236: Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
1237: treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
1238: morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
1239: hackologist and adventurer!<br>
1240: <br>
1241: Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
1242: the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
1243: vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
1244: <br>
1245: Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
1246: <br>
1247: <br>
1248: <font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
1249: Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
1250: <br>
1251: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1252: I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
1253: <br>
1254: <br>
1255: <font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
1256: They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
1257: <br>
1258: <br>
1259: <font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
1260: You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
1261: <br>
1262: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1263: Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
1264: <br>
1265: <br>
1266: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1267: SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
1268: <br>
1269: <font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
1270: API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
1271: <br>
1272: <br>
1273: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1274: Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
1275: there before him
1276: lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
1277: secure operating system,
1278: to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
1279: the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
1280: <br>
1281: Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
1282: Puffiana Jones!<br>
1283: <br>
1284: <br>
1285: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1286: <img height=2160 width=380 src="images/38song.gif"><br>
1.58 deraadt 1287: </td></tr></table>
1288: <p>
1289: <em>
1290: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1291: The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
1292: Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
1293: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios.
1294: (1-403-233-0350).
1295: <br>
1296: <br>
1297: </em>
1298:
1299: <hr>
1.44 deraadt 1300: <a name=37></a>
1301: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
1302: 3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
1303: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1304: <tr>
1305: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1306: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]</a><br>
1307: OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1308: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1309: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1310: 10:08 minutes
1311: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
1312: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 1313: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1314: <a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
1315: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
1.44 deraadt 1316: <br>
1317: <br>
1318: <em>
1319: For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
1320: good device support.<br>
1321: <br>
1322: Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
1323: programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
1324: Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
1325: here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
1326: documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
1327: drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
1328: ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
1329: still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
1.62 brad 1330: Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
1.46 henning 1331: solved in the ethernet market.<br>
1.44 deraadt 1332: <br>
1333: Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
1334: Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
1335: devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
1336: preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
1337: Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
1338: phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
1339: companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
1340: <br>
1341: The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
1342: <br>
1343: Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
1344: We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
1345: could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
1.52 deraadt 1346: not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
1.44 deraadt 1347: particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
1348: everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
1349: <br>
1350:
1351: Want to help us? Avoid
1352: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
1353: Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
1354: Heck, avoid buying even regular
1.48 deraadt 1355: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
1.44 deraadt 1356: to send a message.
1.48 deraadt 1357: If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
1.44 deraadt 1358: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
1359: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
1360: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
1361: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
1362: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
1363: Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
1.52 deraadt 1364: which chipsets into which product.
1.44 deraadt 1365: <br>
1366: <br>
1367: Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
1.56 cloder 1368: Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
1.44 deraadt 1369: the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
1370: What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
1371: Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
1372: distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
1.49 nick 1373: are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
1.44 deraadt 1374: development information for all, but are even going further and
1375: telling their development communities to not work with us at
1376: pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
1377: <br>
1378: </em>
1379: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1380: <br>
1381: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1382: The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
1383: her uncles on the farm,<br>
1384: send out the alarm<br>
1385: and the shit storm flies<br>
1386: E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
1387: With Puffathy inside,<br>
1388: twisting up a ride<br>
1389: to the land of OS<br>
1390: Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
1391: The wicked lawyers dead<br>
1392: The open slippers red are<br>
1393: Hers to take<br>
1394: <br>
1.53 otto 1395: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1396: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1397: <br>
1398: The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
1399: To get yourself back home<br>
1400: Take this yellow road and<br>
1.47 pvalchev 1401: You'll be fine<br>
1.44 deraadt 1402: Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
1403: Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
1404: give Taiwan your biz<br>
1405: You'll never lose<br>
1406: The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
1407: Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
1408: lazy and insane<br>
1409: but they sang OK<br>
1410: <br>
1.53 otto 1411: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1412: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1413: <br>
1414: Finally we're through the trees<br>
1415: The city glows<br>
1416: It's positively green<br>
1417: Pompously the wizard booms<br>
1418: He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
1419: <br>
1420: Go to the west<br>
1421: You must pass the test<br>
1422: For me<br>
1423: Bring me the ride<br>
1424: of the witch I despise<br>
1425: And you'll be free<br>
1426: <br>
1427: You don't need the broom<br>
1428: You don't need the shoes<br>
1429: You don't need the wiz<br>
1430: You will never lose<br>
1431: You have all you need<br>
1432: You always had heart<br>
1433: You always had courage<br>
1434: Did somebody fart?<br>
1435: You always had brains<br>
1436: You answered each call<br>
1.57 deraadt 1437: And this may surprise you<br>
1.44 deraadt 1438: But you've got some balls<br>
1439: So double click heels<br>
1440: and work with Taiwan<br>
1441: And speak to your doggie<br>
1442: You're already gone....<br>
1443: <br>
1444: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1445: <img height=1079 width=380 src="images/37song.gif"><br>
1.44 deraadt 1446: </td></tr></table>
1447: <p>
1448: <em>
1449: Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
1450: Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
1451: Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
1452: Semaka,
1453: guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
1.55 tom 1454: Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.44 deraadt 1455: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at Moxam Studios
1456: (1-403-233-0350).
1457: <br>
1458: <br>
1459: </em>
1460:
1461: <hr>
1.37 deraadt 1462: <a name=36></a>
1463: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
1464: 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
1465: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1466: <tr>
1467: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1468: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.6 or other items]</a><br>
1469: OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1470: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1471: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1472: 4:00 minutes
1473: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
1474: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
1.37 deraadt 1475: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1476: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
1477: <img width=227 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
1.37 deraadt 1478: <br>
1479: <br>
1480: <em>
1481: What is up with some free software providers?!
1482: They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
1483: <p>
1484: While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
1485: has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
1486: we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
1.41 deraadt 1487: to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
1.37 deraadt 1488: going to remember them in the end.
1489: <p>
1490: This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
1491: have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
1492: offerings in the last few years:
1493: <ul>
1494: <li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
1495: developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
1496: called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
1497: code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
1498: we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
1499: stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
1500: told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
1501: replacement effort.
1.41 deraadt 1502: Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
1.37 deraadt 1503: <p>
1504: <li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
1505: packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
1506: that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
1507: were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
1508: and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
1509: one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
1510: <p>
1511: <li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
1512: of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
1513: web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
1514: and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
1.40 jolan 1515: a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
1.51 jcs 1516: doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
1.37 deraadt 1517: protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
1518: </ul>
1519: So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
1520: others who will follow them:
1521: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
1522: replace it.
1523: <br>
1524: </em>
1525: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1526: <br>
1527: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1528: <br>
1529: <br>
1530: Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
1531: Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
1532: Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
1533: Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
1534: <p>
1535: But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
1.38 pvalchev 1536: Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
1.37 deraadt 1537: Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
1538: Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
1539: <p>
1540: <br>
1541: He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
1542: So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
1543: Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
1544: They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
1545: <p>
1546: So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
1547: Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
1548: Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
1549: Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
1550: <p>
1551: <br>
1552: Pond-erosa Puff<br>
1553: wouldn't take no guff<br>
1.41 deraadt 1554: Water oughta be clean and free<br>
1.37 deraadt 1555: So he fought the fight<br>
1556: and he set things right<br>
1557: With his OpenBSD<br>
1558: <p>
1559: <br>
1560: Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
1561: But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
1562: Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
1563: He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
1564: <p>
1565: But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
1566: Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
1567: Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
1568: Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
1569: <p>
1570: <br>
1571: "The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
1572: And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
1.51 jcs 1573: "No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1574: Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
1575: <p>
1576: Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
1577: So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
1578: Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
1579: So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
1580: <p>
1581: <br>
1582: CHORUS<br>
1583: <p>
1584: <br>
1585: So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
1586: The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
1587: Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
1.42 deraadt 1588: Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1589: <p>
1590: So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
1591: Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
1592: They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
1593: Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
1594: <p>
1595: <br>
1596: I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
1.39 mcbride 1597: n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1598: You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
1599: and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
1600: <p>
1601: I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
1602: of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
1.41 deraadt 1603: So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
1604: Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1605: <p>
1606: <br>
1607: CHORUS<br>
1608: <br>
1609: <p>
1610: That's right!<br>
1611: I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
1612: Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
1613: <br>
1614: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1615: <img height=1634 width=263 src="images/36song.gif"><br>
1.37 deraadt 1616: </td></tr></table>
1617: <p>
1618: <em>
1619: Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
1620: Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
1621: Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
1622: Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
1623: <br>
1624: <br>
1625: </em>
1626:
1627: <hr>
1.30 deraadt 1628: <a name=35></a>
1.33 deraadt 1629: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
1630: 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
1.30 deraadt 1631: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1632: <tr>
1633: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 1634: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.5 or other items]</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1635: OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.55 tom 1636: uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
1.30 deraadt 1637: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1638: 5:21 minutes
1639: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
1640: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1641: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1642: <a href="images/Carp.gif">
1643: <img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
1.30 deraadt 1644: <br>
1645: <br>
1646: <em>
1647: A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
1648: and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
1649: themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
1650: redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
1651: Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
1652: <p>
1653: We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
1654: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
1655: and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
1656: firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
1657: them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
1658: sessions. Our
1659: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
1660: protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
1661: it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
1662: network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
1663: firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
1664: the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
1665: <p>
1666: The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
1667: 90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
1668: Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
1669: Redundancy Protocol); on
1670: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
1671: March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
1672: "Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
1673: that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
1674: standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
1675: IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
1676: though there was a patent in the space. Why?
1677: <a href="http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/documents/standards/general-comms/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
1678: There was much deliberation</a>
1679: at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
1680: politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
1681: standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
1682: (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
1683: programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
1684: RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
1685: the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
1686: and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
1687: eh?
1688: <p>
1689: Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
1690: (HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
1691: recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
1692: -- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
1693: claim patent rights.
1694: <p>
1695: On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
1696: lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
1697: its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
1698: impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
1699: implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
1700: Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
1701: small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
1702: against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
1703: members took note of our complaints,
1704: <a href="http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
1705: however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
1706: patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
1707: <p>
1708: A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
1709: to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
1710: and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
1711: backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
1712: avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
1.55 tom 1713: participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
1.30 deraadt 1714: Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
1715: is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
1716: like all others, except against the community.
1717: <p>
1718: Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
1719: benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
1720: <p>
1721: Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
1722: correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
1723: designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
1724: problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
1725: same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
1726: document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
1727: We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
1728: lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
1729: it to use cryptography.
1730: <p>
1731: The combination of
1732: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
1733: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
1734: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
1735: has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
1736: have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
1737: running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
1738: group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
1739: our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
1740: to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
1741: this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
1742: <p>
1743: As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
1744: regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
1745: for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
1746: to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
1747: were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
1748: anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
1749: We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
1750: these decisions, but they declined to reply.
1751: <p>
1752: This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
1753: this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
1754: <br>
1755: </em>
1756: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1757: <br>
1758: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1759: <br>
1760: <br>
1761: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1762: Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
1763: <br>
1764: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1765: A what?
1766: <br>
1767: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1768: A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
1769: <br>
1770: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1771: Well, it's free isn't it?
1772: <br>
1773: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1774: Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
1775: <br>
1776: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1777: What?
1778: <br>
1779: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1780: He is an.... redundancy protocol.
1781: <br>
1782: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1783: CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
1784: <br>
1785: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1786: Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
1787: they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
1788: <br>
1789: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1790: You must be a looney.
1791: <br>
1792: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1793: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
1794: because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
1795: that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
1796: standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
1797: on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
1798: Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
1799: patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
1800: companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
1801: bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
1802: <br>
1803: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1804: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
1805: <br>
1806: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1807: Yes.
1808: <br>
1809: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1810: For a free redundancy protocol?
1811: <br>
1812: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1813: Yes.
1814: <br>
1815: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1816: You are a looney.
1817: <br>
1818: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1819: Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
1820: patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
1821: VRRP.
1822: <br>
1823: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1824: You don't need a license for your VRRP.
1825: <br>
1826: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1.32 otto 1827: I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
1.30 deraadt 1828: <br>
1829: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1830: There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
1831: <br>
1832: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1833: Yes there is!
1834: <br>
1835: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1836: Isn't!
1837: <br>
1838: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1839: Is!
1840: <br>
1841: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1842: Isn't!
1843: <br>
1844: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1845: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
1846: <br>
1847: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1848: This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
1849: out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
1850: <br>
1851: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1852: The man didn't have the right form.
1853: <br>
1854: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1855: What man?
1856: <br>
1857: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1858: Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
1859: <br>
1860: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1861: The looney detector van, you mean.
1862: <br>
1863: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1864: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
1865: <br>
1866: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1867: What redundancy detector van?
1868: <br>
1869: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1870: The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
1871: <br>
1872: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1873: Cizzz-coeee?
1874: <br>
1875: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1876: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
1877: so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
1878: pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
1879: being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
1880: <br>
1881: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1.34 otto 1882: How much did you pay for that?
1.30 deraadt 1883: <br>
1884: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1885: Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
1886: <br>
1887: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1888: What PIX?
1889: <br>
1890: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1891: The PIX I'm replacing!
1892: <br>
1893: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1894: So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
1895: license it?
1896: <br>
1897: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1898: There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
1899: protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
1900: <br>
1901: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1902: No they didn't!
1903: <br>
1904: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1905: Did!
1906: <br>
1907: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1908: Didn't!
1909: <br>
1910: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1911: Did, did, did and did!
1912: <br>
1913: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1914: Oh, all right.
1915: <br>
1916: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1917: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
1918: license?
1919: <br>
1920: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1921: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
1922: <br>
1923: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1924: In that case, give me a Firewall License.
1925: <br>
1926: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1927: A license?
1928: <br>
1929: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1930: Yes.
1931: <br>
1932: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1933: For your firewall?
1934: <br>
1935: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1936: No.
1937: <br>
1938: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1939: No?
1940: <br>
1941: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1942: No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
1943: <br>
1944: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1945: You're off your chump.
1946: <br>
1947: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1948: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
1.43 deraadt 1949: to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
1.30 deraadt 1950: semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
1951: listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
1952: <br>
1953: <br>
1954: A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
1955: <br>
1956: VRRP, philosophically,<br>
1957: must ipso facto standard be<br>
1958: But standard it<br>
1959: needs to be free<br>
1960: vis a vis<br>
1961: the IETF<br>
1962: you see?<br>
1963: <br>
1964: But can VRRP<br>
1965: be said to be<br>
1966: or not to be<br>
1967: a standard, see,<br>
1968: when VRRP can not be free,<br>
1969: due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
1970: <br>
1971: Singing...<br>
1972: <br>
1973: La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
1974: VRRP ain't free.<br>
1975: O P E N B S D<br>
1976: CARP is free<br>
1977: <br>
1978: Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
1979: let through IETF to mean<br>
1980: my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
1981: No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
1982: <br>
1983: Fiddle dee dum,<br>
1984: Fiddle dee dee,<br>
1985: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1986: <br>
1987: 1 1 2,<br>
1988: Tee Hee Hee,<br>
1989: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1990: <br>
1991: My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
1992: bisected accidentally,<br>
1993: one summer afternoon by me.<br>
1994: Redundancy's good when free.<br>
1995: <br>
1996: Redundancy must be free.<br>
1997: Redundancy must be free.<br>
1998: <br>
1999: The End<br>
2000: <br>
2001: Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
2002: <br>
2003: No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
2004: <br>
2005: Geddy must be free.<br>
2006: <br>
2007: <br>
2008: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2009: <img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
1.30 deraadt 2010: </td></tr></table>
2011: <p>
2012: <em>
2013: <font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
2014: Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
2015: <br>
1.34 otto 2016: <font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
1.30 deraadt 2017: Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
1.37 deraadt 2018: Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
1.30 deraadt 2019: Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
2020: Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
2021: <br>
2022: <br>
2023: </em>
2024:
2025: <hr>
1.20 deraadt 2026: <a name=34></a>
1.33 deraadt 2027: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
2028: 3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
1.20 deraadt 2029: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2030: <tr>
2031: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 2032: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2033: OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2034: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2035: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2036: 3:30 minutes
2037: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
2038: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2039: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2040: <a href="images/Hood.gif">
2041: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
1.20 deraadt 2042: <br>
2043: <br>
2044: <em>
2045: Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
1.26 deraadt 2046: the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
1.20 deraadt 2047: forces of the draconian government!
2048: <p>
2049: <br>
2050: As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
2051: making release artwork and music which are allegorical
2052: of recent happenings.
2053: <p>
2054: Two years ago we became involved with the University
2055: of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
2056: security research and development .. on things that
2057: we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
2058: wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
2059: DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
2060: credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
2061: a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
2062: promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
2063: was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
1.21 deraadt 2064: than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
1.20 deraadt 2065: forces of government, and needed to be careful.
2066: <p>
2067: A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
2068: and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
2069: they also aggressively backed out of contractual
2070: obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
1.67 jolan 2071: this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
1.20 deraadt 2072: because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
1.55 tom 2073: newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
1.20 deraadt 2074: making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
2075: theft of oil.
2076: <p>
2077: The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
2078: DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
2079: <p>
2080: "As a result of the DARPA review of the
2081: project, and due to world events and the evolving
2082: threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
2083: the Government on April 21 advised the University
2084: to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
2085: the project."
2086: <p>
2087: That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
2088: We had lost financial support, but the release of the
2089: statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
2090: of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
2091: <p>
2092: Since the termination came near natural contract
2093: termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
2094: than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
2095: stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
2096: we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
1.61 grunk 2097: proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
1.20 deraadt 2098: "Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
2099: developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
2100: <p>
2101: We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
2102: we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
2103: of Robin Hood.
2104: </em>
2105: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2106: <br>
2107: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2108: <br>
2109: Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
2110: Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
2111: He had found the crusades<br>
2112: were an endless charade<br>
2113: So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
2114: <br>
2115: <br>
2116: One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
2117: Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
2118: Clever chums they did find<br>
2119: other fish of their kind<br>
2120: Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
2121: <br>
2122: <br>
2123: Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
2124: The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
2125: With CD's and their freedom<br>
2126: for to share online<br>
2127: And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
2128: <br>
2129: <br>
2130: So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
2131: and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
2132: Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
2133: to the teaming schools<br>
2134: Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
2135: <br>
2136: <br>
2137: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2138: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2139: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2140: So raise up your glass and<br>
2141: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2142: Fish for never running<br>
2143: and making something good!<br>
2144: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2145: <br>
2146: <br>
2147: Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
2148: The Hood's a bad ball<br>
2149: Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
2150: He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
2151: Think he's a hero?<br>
2152: Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
1.24 deraadt 2153: He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
1.20 deraadt 2154: Read the Wanted poster<br>
2155: of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
2156: We gettin' back the booty<br>
2157: or we take away your worms too<br>
2158: <br>
2159: <br>
2160: Yo! Word to the classes<br>
2161: Put on your glasses<br>
2162: I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
2163: Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
2164: He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
2165: I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
2166: who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
2167: And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
2168: happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
2169: No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
2170: and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
2171: <br>
2172: <br>
2173: Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
1.25 deraadt 2174: The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
1.20 deraadt 2175: And took back all the booty<br>
2176: Puff intended for the poor<br>
2177: The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
2178: <br>
2179: <br>
2180: Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
2181: And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
2182: He loaded all the loot<br>
2183: to give it back and big surprise<br>
2184: He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
2185: <br>
2186: <br>
2187: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2188: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2189: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2190: So raise up your glass and<br>
2191: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2192: Fish for never running<br>
2193: and making something good!<br>
2194: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2195: <br>
2196:
2197: <br>
2198: <br>
2199: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2200: <img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
1.20 deraadt 2201: </td></tr></table>
2202: <p>
2203: <em>
2204: Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
2205: Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2206: <br>
2207: Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
2208: <br>
2209: Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
1.55 tom 2210: Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
1.20 deraadt 2211: <br>
2212: Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
2213: Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
2214: <br>
2215: </em>
2216:
1.23 jose 2217: <br>
2218: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 2219: <a name=33></a>
1.33 deraadt 2220: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
2221: 3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2222: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2223: <tr>
2224: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2225: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2226: OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2227: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2228: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2229: 4:00 minutes
2230: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
2231: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2232: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2233: <a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
2234: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
1.12 deraadt 2235: <br>
2236: <br>
1.14 deraadt 2237: <em>
1.69 deraadt 2238: Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
2239: face some pretty crazy challenges.
1.12 deraadt 2240: <br>
1.69 deraadt 2241: This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
2242: we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
2243: request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
2244: III processors. We want documentation, because
2245: these are the fastest processors with a per-page
2246: eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
2247: our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
2248: the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
2249: this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
1.36 deraadt 2250: mode.<br>
2251: <br>
2252: And it is going to be faster...<br>
1.12 deraadt 2253: </em>
1.11 deraadt 2254: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2255: Deep through the mists of time<br>
2256: Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
2257: Back to the age of darkness<br>
2258: Black was the protocol<br>
2259: <p>
2260: A King ruled the web with fear<br>
2261: Spilling the blood of men<br>
2262: Then from the ocean came<br>
2263: Puff the Barbarian<br>
1.17 deraadt 2264: <br>
2265: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2266: Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
2267: Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
2268: Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
2269: Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
2270: <p>
2271: Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
2272: A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
2273: Constraints were slain as well<br>
2274: Hacked his way out to the C<br>
2275: <p>
2276: And there he found<br>
2277: His destiny<br>
2278: Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
2279: "Xor taking care of me"<br>
2280: <p>
2281: Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
2282: "Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
2283: Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
2284: Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
2285: <p>
2286: At the tower Puff appealed<br>
2287: For the wisdom of the One<br>
2288: Denied, his mind did reel<br>
2289: Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
2290: <p>
2291: Broke down the guard<br>
2292: Cause math is hard<br>
1.18 deraadt 2293: Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
1.11 deraadt 2294: All alone and only bones<br>
2295: <p>
2296: Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
2297: Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
2298: And Puff, the land secured<br>
2299: The new King Barbarian!<br>
2300: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2301: <img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
1.11 deraadt 2302: </td></tr></table>
2303: <p>
2304: <em>
2305: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
2306: Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2307: <br>
2308: Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
2309: drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2310: </em>
2311:
2312: <br>
2313: <hr>
1.9 millert 2314: <a name=32></a>
1.33 deraadt 2315: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
2316: 3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2317: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2318: <tr>
2319: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2320: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2321: OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2322: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2323: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2324: 3:00 minutes
2325: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
2326: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2327: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2328: <a href="images/MrPond.gif">
2329: <img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2330: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.9 millert 2331: Goldflipper<br>
2332: With golden skin<br>
2333: and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
2334: He's the machine<br>
2335: Designed to dismember your life<br>
2336: <p>
2337: And the fish<br>
2338: Protecting us all from the cat<br>
2339: And the cat<br>
2340: Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
2341: <p>
2342: Cyborg on a mission<br>
2343: To do some Puff fishin'<br>
2344: The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
2345: <p>
2346: (short instrumental intro)
1.1 deraadt 2347: <p>
1.9 millert 2348: You'll need some machismo to<br>
2349: catch the spikey one<br>
2350: He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
2351: make the system run<br>
1.1 deraadt 2352: <p>
1.9 millert 2353: But Flip's here for fun<br>
2354: and without a gun<br>
2355: He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
1.1 deraadt 2356: <p>
1.9 millert 2357: She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
2358: such a sexy catch<br>
2359: Is she spying on him or<br>
2360: just a seafood match?<br>
1.1 deraadt 2361: <p>
1.9 millert 2362: Oh double seven<br>
2363: Send me to Heaven<br>
2364: Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
1.1 deraadt 2365: <p>
1.9 millert 2366: The women are fond<br>
2367: She knows what to do<br>
2368: She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
1.1 deraadt 2369: <p>
1.9 millert 2370: Goldflipper is gone<br>
2371: Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
1.11 deraadt 2372: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2373: <br>
2374: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2375: <p>
2376: <em>
1.9 millert 2377: Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.1 deraadt 2378: <br>
1.9 millert 2379: Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
2380: Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
2381: Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
1.1 deraadt 2382: </em>
2383:
2384: <br>
2385: <hr>
1.3 ian 2386: <a name=31></a>
1.33 deraadt 2387: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
2388: 3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2389: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2390: <tr>
2391: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2392: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2393: OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2394: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2395: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2396: 3:00 minutes
2397: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2398: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2399: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2400: <a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
2401: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2402: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2403: BSD fight buffer reign<br>
2404: Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
2405: Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
2406: Puffy rip attacker out<br>
2407: <p>
2408: Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2409: Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2410: <p>
2411: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2412: Über tragic<br>
2413: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2414: <p>
2415: Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
2416: Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
2417: Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
2418: Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
1.11 deraadt 2419: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2420: <p>
2421: Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2422: Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2423: <p>
2424: Chorus
2425: <p>
2426: Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
2427: Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
2428: Penguin lurking under bed<br>
2429: Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
2430: <p>
2431: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2432: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2433: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2434: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2435: <p>
2436: Chorus<br>
1.11 deraadt 2437: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2438: <p>
2439: <em>
1.3 ian 2440: Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
1.1 deraadt 2441: Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
2442: drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
2443: <br>
1.3 ian 2444: Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
1.1 deraadt 2445: <br>
2446: Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2447: </em>
2448:
1.8 millert 2449: <br>
2450: <hr>
1.9 millert 2451: <a name=30></a>
1.33 deraadt 2452: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
2453: 3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2454: <p>
2455: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
2456: <tr>
1.76 deraadt 2457: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2458: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2459: OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2460: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2461: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2462: 3:00 minutes
2463: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2464: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2465: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2466: <a href="images/Rock.jpg">
2467: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2468: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2469: <br>
2470: <br>
1.9 millert 2471: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
2472: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1.8 millert 2473: <p>
1.9 millert 2474: During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
2475: OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
1.8 millert 2476: <p>
1.9 millert 2477: I'm secure by default<br>
1.8 millert 2478: <p>
1.27 deraadt 2479: They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
1.9 millert 2480: deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
1.8 millert 2481: <p>
1.9 millert 2482: RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
1.8 millert 2483: <p>
1.16 deraadt 2484: Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
1.9 millert 2485: I'm secure by default<br>
2486: stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
1.8 millert 2487: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2488: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.8 millert 2489: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2490: </td></tr></table>
2491: <p>
1.8 millert 2492: <em>
1.9 millert 2493: By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
2494: <br>
2495: Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
1.35 nick 2496: John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
1.9 millert 2497: <br>
2498: Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
1.8 millert 2499: <br>
1.9 millert 2500: Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
1.8 millert 2501: </em>
2502:
1.1 deraadt 2503: <hr>
1.79 deraadt 2504: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="OpenBSD"></a>
2505: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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