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1.1 deraadt 17: <p>
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
1.108 deraadt 24: classical setting, a movie, or some genre) into the fishy world of
25: Puffy, to describe some event or controversy the project went through
26: over the previous six months. To match the art released with the CD,
27: Ty and his friend Jonathan Lewis build the song and bring in
28: additional hired musicians from around Calgary. Theo then gets the
29: pleasure (and responsibility) to write a commentary explaining it all.
1.1 deraadt 30:
1.20 deraadt 31: <p>
1.71 deraadt 32: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
33: <tr>
1.72 deraadt 34: <td valign="top" width="45%">
1.116 deraadt 35: <a href="#46">4.6: "Planet of the Users"<br>
1.108 deraadt 36: <a href="#45">4.5: "Games"<br>
1.104 deraadt 37: <a href="#44">4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"<br>
1.95 deraadt 38: <a href="#43">4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"<br>
1.90 deraadt 39: <a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"<br>
1.89 deraadt 40: <a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"<br>
41: <a href="#40">4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a> and
42: <a href="#audio_extra">"OpenVOX" (extra track)</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 43: <a href="#39">3.9: "Blob!"</a><br>
44: <a href="#38">3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a><br>
45: <a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS"</a><br>
46: <a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a><br>
47: <a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a><br>
48: <a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a><br>
49: <a href="#33">3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a><br>
1.108 deraadt 50: </td><td valign="top" width="1%">
51: <br>
52: </td><td valign="top" width="54%">
1.116 deraadt 53: <a href="#32">3.2: "Goldflipper"</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 54: <a href="#31">3.1: "Systemagic"</a><br>
55: <a href="#30">3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 56: <br>
1.116 deraadt 57: <br>
1.113 deraadt 58: <a href="#audio_extra">
1.72 deraadt 59: <img align="left" height=158 width=158 hspace="5" vspace="0" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
1.71 deraadt 60: </a>
61: The 3.0 - 4.0 songs are available on an Audio CD celebrating
62: 10 years of OpenBSD releases.
63: <br>
64: <br>
1.76 deraadt 65: An <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
66: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") is included which details
67: the process of making the art and music each release.
1.71 deraadt 68: <br clear=all>
69: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 70: Order an Audio CDROM from our International site</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 71: </td></tr></table>
1.20 deraadt 72: <p>
1.104 deraadt 73:
74: <hr>
1.116 deraadt 75: <a name=46></a>
76: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="46.html">
77: 4.6: "Planet of the Users"</a></font></h2>
78: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
79: <tr>
80: <td valign="top" width="33%">
81: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.6 or other items]</a><br>
82: OpenBSD 4.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
83: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
84: <br>
1.117 ! damien 85: 2:38 minutes
! 86: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song46.mp3">(MP3 4.8MB)</a>
! 87: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song46.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
1.116 deraadt 88: <br>
89: <a href="images/PlanetUsers.jpg">
90: <img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/PlanetUsers.jpg"></a>
91: <br>
92: <br>
93: <em>
94: [Commentary still being written]
95: <br>
96: </em>
97: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
98: <br>
99: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
100: <br>
101: Welcome to the future<br>
102: One very rich man<br>
103: runs the Earth with<br>
104: one multinational<br>
105: owns your stuff<br>
106: and owns your birth<br>
107: <br>
108: Everyone is armless<br>
109: Personal robots<br>
110: Do it all for you<br>
111: Sitting on your slug head<br>
112: One channel TV<br>
113: never gonna bore you<br>
114: <br>
115: CHORUS<br>
116: Does it sound like a paradise<br>
117: or a way to die<br>
118: while alive and a loser<br>
119: I'm a man from the open past<br>
1.117 ! damien 120: And I'll never last<br>
1.116 deraadt 121: on the Planet of the Users<br>
122: <br>
123: Everyone is happy<br>
124: No more government<br>
125: No more media<br>
126: Only the Company<br>
127: Entertains you<br>
128: while it feeds you<br>
129: <br>
130: Soylent Green pap<br>
131: Eating your friends while<br>
132: shopping, buying<br>
133: Stupid applications<br>
134: Obsolete before you try them<br>
135: <br>
136: CHORUS<br>
137: <br>
138: Take me back<br>
139: Take me back<br>
140: Please<br>
141: Take me back<br>
142: <br>
143: Way back in my time<br>
144: Open source kept<br>
145: everyone choosing<br>
146: People knew the insides<br>
147: Of devices they were using<br>
148: <br>
149: Hackers had a doorway<br>
150: Now it's locked and<br>
151: dumbed down so much<br>
152: One button coma<br>
153: Stop the future truly outta touch<br>
154: <br>
155: CHORUS<br>
156: <br>
157: <br>
158: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
159: <img width=395 height=1778 src="images/46song.jpg"><br>
160: </td></tr></table>
161: <p>
162: <em>
163: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
164: Vocals by Duncan McDonald, bass guitar by Jonathan Lewis, guitars by
165: Russ Broom, drums by John McNeil.
166: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
167: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
168: <br>
169: <br>
170: </em>
171:
172: <hr>
1.108 deraadt 173: <a name=45></a>
174: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="45.html">
175: 4.5: "Games"</a></font></h2>
176: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
177: <tr>
178: <td valign="top" width="33%">
179: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.5 or other items]</a><br>
180: OpenBSD 4.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
181: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
182: <br>
183: 3:29 minutes
184: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song45.mp3">(MP3 6.4MB)</a>
1.110 deraadt 185: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song45.ogg">(OGG 4.5MB)</a><br>
1.108 deraadt 186: <br>
187: <a href="images/Pufftron.jpg">
188: <img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/Pufftron.jpg"></a>
189: <br>
190: <br>
191: <em>
192: [Commentary still being written]
193: <br>
194: </em>
195: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
196: <br>
197: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
198: <br>
199: I love to hate my PC<br>
200: But now it's not so easy<br>
201: Just wanna get this job done<br>
202: But these A.M.L. games are dumb<br>
203: <br>
204: You wanna know the truth?<br>
205: Intel's controlling you<br>
206: And Microsoft is too<br>
207: But this is nothing new<br>
208: <br>
209: With A.C.P.I.<br>
210: This endless mess so corporate<br>
211: Tangles and angles<br>
212: In what could be straight forward<br>
213: <br>
214: Lost connections<br>
215: Lost my mind<br>
216: It's such a waste of time<br>
217: <br>
218: CHORUS<br>
219: <br>
220: Now on the motherboard<br>
221: Where all my life is stored<br>
222: Playing with garbage there<br>
223: With rules so unfair<br>
224: <br>
225: Ruled by A.C.P.I.<br>
1.109 deraadt 226: Whose heart is so corrupted<br>
1.108 deraadt 227: Forcing us all to play<br>
228: Our progress interrupted<br>
229: <br>
230: Lost connections<br>
231: Lost my mind<br>
232: It's such a waste of time<br>
233: <br>
234: CHORUS<br>
235: <br>
236: Yes I'm a user<br>
237: And I'm not the only one<br>
238: I'm not a loser<br>
239: With help from Puffy Tron<br>
240: <br>
241: And we will find it<br>
242: The pin in all this heartache<br>
243: Map our devices<br>
244: And we know what it'll take<br>
245: <br>
246: Lost connections<br>
247: Lost my mind<br>
248: Oh Ooh Woah end of line<br>
249: <br>
250: (bridge)<br>
251: On and on<br>
252: Can we all be wrong?<br>
253: All and all<br>
254: We are one<br>
255: Clean the dream<br>
256: Gone wrong<br>
257: We are Tron<br>
258: On and on and on<br>
259: <br>
260: Instrumental CHORUS (guitar solo)<br>
261: <br>
262: Instrumental pre-chorus<br>
263: <br>
264: CHORUS<br>
265: dumb dumb dumb<br>
266: <br>
267: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
268: <img width=395 height=1778 src="images/45song.jpg"><br>
269: </td></tr></table>
270: <p>
271: <em>
272: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
273: Theo de Raadt. Synth, drum and bass programming by Jonathan Lewis,
274: guitar by Russ Broom, vocals by Jonny Sinclair.
1.112 deraadt 275: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
276: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.108 deraadt 277: <br>
278: <br>
279: </em>
280:
281: <hr>
1.104 deraadt 282: <a name=44></a>
283: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="44.html">
284: 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a></font></h2>
285: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
286: <tr>
287: <td valign="top" width="33%">
288: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.4 or other items]</a><br>
289: OpenBSD 4.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
290: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
291: <br>
292: 3:05 minutes
293: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
294: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.ogg">(OGG 4.4MB)</a><br>
295: <br>
296: <a href="images/SourceWars.jpg">
297: <img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/SourceWars.jpg"></a>
298: <br>
299: <br>
300: <em>
301: Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of
302: the Berkeley Unix distributions for the
303: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565925823/openbsdA/">
304: O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"</a>.
305: We recommend you read his story, entitled
306: <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html">
307: "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
308: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable"</a>
309: first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here.
310: Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has
311: probably not been read by enough people.
312: <br>
313: <br>
314: The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were
315: not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear.
316: But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase
317: of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting
318: than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which
319: hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period.
320: But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so
321: much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had
322: lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid?
323: <br>
324: <br>
325: After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had
326: already been replaced by university researchers and their associates.
327: So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group)
328: started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest.
329: Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX
330: conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these
331: rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by
332: piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs.
333: Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like
334: Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more.
335: <br>
336: <br>
1.105 deraadt 337: Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit more careful
1.104 deraadt 338: checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which
339: was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source
340: code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice).
341: <br>
342: <br>
343: Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system
344: based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories
345: (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB.
346: Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the
347: lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments
348: (and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite.
349: Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for
350: a lot less than <a href=orders.html>$1000 per copy</a>).
351: <br>
352: <br>
353: The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick,
354: and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.
355: <br>
356: </em>
357: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
358: <br>
359: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
360: <br>
361: <center>
362: <br>
363: Source Wars<br>
364: Episode IV<br>
365: Trial of the BSD Knights<br>
366: </center>
367: <br>
368: Not so very long ago<br>
369: and not so far away<br>
370: AT&T made system code<br>
371: and gave some bits away<br>
372: <br>
373: Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it<br>
374: better, faster, more diverse<br>
375: This open thing was wonderful<br>
376: for everyone on Earth<br>
377: <br>
378: And then the roaring 90's came<br>
379: The Empire changed its mind<br>
380: And good old greed was back again<br>
381: The geeks were in a legal bind<br>
382: <br>
383: The Empire's Unix Lab<br>
384: sued BSDi from above<br>
385: The code is free but<br>
386: only we can sell it bub!<br>
387: <br>
388: The University came calling<br>
389: in full protective mode<br>
1.106 deraadt 390: and proved the source in Net/2<br>
1.104 deraadt 391: didn't use the Empire's code<br>
392: <br>
393: Then Bostic brought the Empire's books<br>
394: n' slammed them dandys down<br>
395: And showed the giant chunks<br>
396: of BSD code all around<br>
397: <br>
398: They didn't even give an ounce<br>
399: of credit front to back<br>
400: This broke the license USL<br>
401: was using to attack<br>
402: <br>
403: The case was thrown out by the judge<br>
404: and "settled" out of court<br>
405: And UCB was big enough<br>
406: to take it like a sport<br>
407: <br>
408: And to this day the geekfolk say<br>
409: Now did we win or lose?<br>
410: They shoulda made 'em reprint<br>
411: every book with proper dues<br>
412: <br>
413: And take out ads in major rags<br>
414: apologetically<br>
415: And maybe now it wouldn't be<br>
416: the same monopoly<br>
417: <br>
418: The Empire might have tumbled<br>
419: down if everybody saw<br>
420: How greed became so big<br>
421: they couldn't see that glaring flaw<br>
422: <br>
423: But only one community<br>
424: the one that makes it tick<br>
425: Is there to fight for everyone<br>
426: exposing hypocrites<br>
427: <br>
428: And OpenBSD is here<br>
429: to tell the story right<br>
430: Once again the fight is fought<br>
431: and kept in shining light<br>
432: <br>
433: And may the source be with you<br>
434: May the Empire fall apart<br>
435: Ya like that's gonna happen!<br>
436: But we gotta keep heart!<br>
437: <br>
438: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
439: <img width=395 height=1800 src="images/44song.jpg"><br>
440: </td></tr></table>
441: <p>
442: <em>
443: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka.
444: Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey.
445: Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 446: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
447: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.104 deraadt 448: <br>
449: <br>
450: </em>
1.20 deraadt 451:
452: <hr>
1.95 deraadt 453: <a name=43></a>
454: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="43.html">
455: 4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"</a></font></h2>
456: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
457: <tr>
458: <td valign="top" width="33%">
459: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.3 or other items]</a><br>
460: OpenBSD 4.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
461: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
462: <br>
463: 4:48 minutes
464: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.mp3">(MP3 8.2MB)</a>
465: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.ogg">(OGG 6.5MB)</a><br>
466: <br>
467: <a href="images/Cryptonaut.jpg">
468: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Cryptonaut" src="images/Cryptonaut.jpg"></a>
469: <br>
470: <br>
471: <em>
472: We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man
473: who is a lot like
474: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/">Naomi Campbell</a>.
475: <br>
476: <br>
477: In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at
1.102 deraadt 478: Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans
479: (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from
480: his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted
1.95 deraadt 481: to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from
482: the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue
1.96 deraadt 483: and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto
1.95 deraadt 484: the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane.
485: After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed
486: onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few
487: OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby,
488: so we have an accurate story of the events.
489: <br>
490: <br>
491: This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us
492: about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes
493: it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he
494: has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone.
495: He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him
496: alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
497: <br>
498: <br>
499: We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We
500: remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a
501: requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of
502: free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's
503: in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful
504: influence which he could use so falsely.
505: <br>
506: <br>
507: We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our "ports" tree
508: builds software that is 'found on the net' into packages that
509: OpenBSD users can use more easily. A scaffold of Makefiles and
510: scripts automatically fetch these pieces of software, apply
511: patches as required by OpenBSD, and then build them into nice
512: neat little tarballs. This is provided as a convenience for
1.97 okan 513: users. The ports tree is maintained by OpenBSD entirely separately
1.95 deraadt 514: from our main source tree. Some of the software which is fetched
515: and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.
516: All the other operating system projects make exactly the same
517: decision, and provide these same conveniences to their users.
518: <br>
519: <br>
520: Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free.
521: He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically, yet
522: he said nothing to the many other vendors who do the same; many of
523: them donate to the FSF and perhaps that has something to do with it.
524: Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official
525: GNU software -- including Emacs -- compiles and runs on Windows.
526: <br>
527: <br>
528: That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some
529: people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not
530: follow their own stupid rules.
531: </em>
532: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
533: <br>
534: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
535: <br>
536:
537: <br>
538: Puffy and the mighty Cryptonauts<br>
539: Trading with new lands by open C<br>
540: Corporate monsters, many closing passages<br>
541: Tempting harpies<br>
542: 13 years of treachery<br>
543: <br>
544: <br>
545: Journey's over, welcome home the heroes<br>
546: Offering the bounty of their trade<br>
547: Useful clothing spun from the golden fleece<br>
548: For the people, free and very strongly made<br>
549: <br>
550: <br>
551: But something's wrong with them<br>
552: They will not take our free wares<br>
553: "What's the matter good people?<br>
1.99 deraadt 554: Why are you so scared?<br>
555: Why?"<br>
1.95 deraadt 556: <br>
557: <br>
558: Then one brave soul spoke out<br>
559: "We're not allowed to take your gifts<br>
1.98 okan 560: Hypocrites has spoken<br>
1.95 deraadt 561: There are many new laws"<br>
562: <br>
563: <br>
1.98 okan 564: Hypocrites appears<br>
1.95 deraadt 565: "Puffy!<br>
566: You must obey my new rules!"<br>
567: <br>
568: <br>
569: "First rule one dictates<br>
570: You cannot give your code away"<br>
571: <br>
572: <br>
573: (In Greek) To your health, Nick, great bouzouki player and cool dude.<br>
574: <br>
575: <br>
576: "And rule two dictates<br>
577: You must give it to me<br>
578: So I can give it away properly for free"<br>
579: <br>
580: <br>
581: "The list goes on of course<br>
582: But for traders this is all you need"<br>
583: <br>
584: <br>
585: "This is madness!<br>
586: He has lost his mind!<br>
587: This defies the first law of free trade<br>
588: Rule zero came before this rule one<br>
589: Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone"<br>
590: <br>
591: <br>
592: Then Hypocrites goes mad.<br>
593: <br>
594: <br>
595: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
596: <img width=395 height=1720 src="images/43song.gif"><br>
597: </td></tr></table>
598: <p>
599: <em>
600: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
601: Nikkos Diochnos. Vocals and bouzouki by Nikkos Diochnos. Baglama,
602: second bouzouki, violin, bass, and drum programming by Stelios Pulos,
1.101 naddy 603: né Jonathan Lewis. Guitar by Methodios Valtiotis, né Allen Baekeland.
604: Percussion by Pentelis Yiannikopulos, né Ben Johnson. Recorded, mixed,
1.112 deraadt 605: and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
606: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.95 deraadt 607: <br>
608: <br>
609: </em>
610:
611: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 612: <a name=42></a>
613: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="42.html">
614: 4.2: "100001 1010101"</a></font></h2>
615: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
616: <tr>
617: <td valign="top" width="33%">
618: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.2 or other items]</a><br>
619: OpenBSD 4.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
620: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
621: <br>
622: 4:40 minutes
623: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.mp3">(MP3 4.0MB)</a>
624: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.ogg">(OGG 6.4MB)</a><br>
625: <br>
626: <a href="images/Marathon.jpg">
627: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Marathon" src="images/Marathon.jpg"></a>
628: <br>
629: <br>
630: <em>
631: Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do.
1.91 merdely 632: This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have
1.90 deraadt 633: remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software,
634: that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share
635: these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open
636: Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one
637: would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't
638: seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects
639: away from the ideals very quickly.
640: <p>
1.93 jmc 641: Much of any operating system's usability depends on device support,
1.91 merdely 642: and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices
1.90 deraadt 643: available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project
644: could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or
645: including binary objects in the operating system for which no source
646: code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden
647: inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset
648: of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about
649: getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.
650: <p>
651: Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals,
652: we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues,
1.91 merdely 653: resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much
1.90 deraadt 654: recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also
655: led to other issues.
656: <p>
657: We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used
658: by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often
659: than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still
660: properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the
661: same spirit that they were given in the first place.
662: <p>
663: That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our
664: stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal;
665: we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more
666: from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux
667: projects.
668: <p>
669: Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all
670: codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants
671: of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the
672: SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source
673: into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off
674: as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution
675: -- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who
676: have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself,
677: not for their agenda.
678: <p>
679: The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do
680: what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We
681: don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our
682: image. We are here to have fun doing right.
683: <p>
684: </em>
685: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
686: <br>
687: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
688: <br>
689: The starting line is nervous<br>
690: we burst upon the course<br>
691: Electric is our passion<br>
692: An open hearted force<br>
693: <br>
694: The water's full of dangers<br>
695: That interrupt the flow<br>
696: And soon the spirit splinters<br>
1.92 deraadt 697: as temptation takes its toll<br>
1.90 deraadt 698: <br>
699: *Give and get back some<br>
700: Sharing it all<br>
701: Path we know best<br>
702: we're having a ball<br>
703: Opulent mission<br>
704: Lost in our passion<br>
705: You can still choose<br>
706: If you don't swim to win<br>
707: you'll never lose*<br>
708: <br>
709: One Zero Zero Zero Zero One<br>
710: <br>
711: The window is a wall by now<br>
712: A sieve of sickened holes<br>
713: The water chicken stealing maps<br>
714: Mistaking us for foes<br>
715: <br>
716: The sun a son of Icarus<br>
717: Flies too close to itself<br>
718: Forbidden fruit is blinded<br>
719: by the toys upon the shelf<br>
720: <br>
721: *CHORUS*<br>
722: <br>
723: One Zero One Zero One Zero One<br>
724: <br>
725: Slow and steady wins they say<br>
726: but this is not a race<br>
727: It's not about who takes a prize<br>
728: for first or second place<br>
729: <br>
730: Imaginary rings of brass<br>
731: Were traded for real goals<br>
732: The vision and the mission lost<br>
733: For those with corporate souls<br>
734: <br>
735: *Give and get back some<br>
736: Sharing it all<br>
737: Path we know best<br>
738: we're having a ball<br>
739: Give and get zeros<br>
740: Give and get ones<br>
741: Given to you but<br>
742: Not you to us<br>
743: Opulent mission<br>
744: Lost in our passion<br>
745: You can still choose<br>
746: If you don't swim to win<br>
747: you'll never lose<br>
748: You'll never lose*<br>
749: <br>
750: <br>
751: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
752: <img width=396 height=1876 src="images/42song.gif"><br>
753: </td></tr></table>
754: <p>
755: <em>
756: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed and
1.112 deraadt 757: mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
758: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.90 deraadt 759: Vocals by Duncan McDonnald (www.thegreatgavalan.com). Drums by
760: John McNeil. Guitar by Jeff Drummond. Bass and keyboards by
761: Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and Theo de Raadt.
762: <br>
763: <br>
764: </em>
765:
766: <hr>
1.81 deraadt 767: <a name=41></a>
768: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
769: 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
770: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
771: <tr>
772: <td valign="top" width="33%">
773: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]</a><br>
774: OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
775: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
776: <br>
777: 4:19 minutes
778: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
779: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
780: <br>
781: <a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
782: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
783: <br>
784: <br>
785: <em>
786: As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
787: is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
788: useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
789: hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
790: that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
791: device support.
792: <p>
1.85 mbalmer 793: Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
1.81 deraadt 794: all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
795: interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
796: mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
797: time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
798: challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
799: of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
800: weird, or even buggy.
801: <p>
802: When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
803: become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
804: for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
805: the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
806: these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
807: from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
1.84 matthieu 808: documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
1.81 deraadt 809: actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
810: OpenBSD, either).
811: <p>
812: When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
813: our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
814: and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
815: unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
816: 20 years building
1.83 wvdputte 817: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
1.81 deraadt 818: political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
819: <p>
1.82 jsg 820: A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
1.87 tom 821: some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
1.81 deraadt 822: of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
823: into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
824: communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
825: requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
826: work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
827: would be fantastic by now.
828: <p>
829: We only ask that
1.83 wvdputte 830: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
1.81 deraadt 831: users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
832: </em>
833: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
834: <br>
835: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
836: <br>
837: Here's an old story ...<br>
838: <br>
839: <br>
840: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
841: We all know the details<br>
842: Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
843: some serious loot,<br>
844: and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
845: Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
846: The little guy who<br>
847: did the best with what he had<br>
848: <br>
849: <br>
850: Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
851: Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
852: in moderation<br>
853: Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
854: <br>
855: <br>
856: If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
857: never give him the password<br>
858: If he goes penguin on you,<br>
859: stop - being - his brother.<br>
860: When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
1.86 tom 861: A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
1.81 deraadt 862: So do the best with what you have<br>
863: <br>
864: <br>
865: Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
866: that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
867: But unlike Vendors,<br>
868: he at least keeps the door open<br>
869: <br>
870: <br>
871: Vendors of water that should be free<br>
872: Look upon their words and despair<br>
873: Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
874: then made him better off dead<br>
875: Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
876: <br>
877: <br>
878: Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
879: The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
880: and left us with open source (sores)<br>
881: sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
882: for each consecutive cut<br>
883: But with the salty water of labour<br>
884: parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
885: <br>
886: <br>
887: It's not whether you're well off<br>
888: it's where you dig the well<br>
889: The best the little guy can do is what<br>
890: the little guy does right<br>
891: <br>
892: <br>
893: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
894: <img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
895: </td></tr></table>
896: <p>
897: <em>
1.112 deraadt 898: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
899: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
900: Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
1.81 deraadt 901: <br>
902: <br>
903: </em>
904:
905: <hr>
1.115 deraadt 906: <a name=audio_extra></a>
1.76 deraadt 907: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
908: "OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
909: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
910: <tr>
911: <td valign="top" width="33%">
912: <a href="orders.html">[Order the OpenBSD audio CD or other items]</a><br>
913: These are the lyrics for the extra track on the OpenBSD Audio CD.<br>
914: <br>
915: 4:00 minutes
916: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
917: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
918: <br>
919: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
920: <br>
921: <br>
922: <em>
923: This is an <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
924: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.
925: <p>
926: This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
927: and music for each OpenBSD release.
928: Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
929: going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
1.111 deraadt 930: <p>
931: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
932: Order this CDROM from our International site.</a>
933: <p>
934: The OpenBSD Audio celebrates the artwork and songs that
935: have been released with each OpenBSD release. All the
936: songs from the 3.0 to 4.0 releases are included (plus
937: one bonus track by Ty Semaka explaining his role in the
938: development of the art that accompanies OpenBSD releases).
939: <p>
940: Includes a 11cm silver-on-clear die-cut wireframe Puffy sticker!
1.76 deraadt 941: </em>
942: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
943: <br>
944: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
945: Be Open<br>
946: Be Vocal<br>
947: Stay Open<br>
948: Stay Vocal<br>
949: <br>
950: (repeat)<br>
951: <br>
952: OpenBSD<br>
953: <br>
954: Twice a year,<br>
955: me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
956: at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
957: and take strips out of liars.<br>
958: He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
959: He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
960: button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
1.78 deraadt 961: on the systematicalifornication<br>
1.76 deraadt 962: and a license application<br>
963: is a fishybomination<br>
964: and a random allocation<br>
965: got a copywritten melanoma<br>
966: sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
967: OK stop.<br>
968: I get it.<br>
969: Some asshole lied.<br>
970: <br>
971: And then he says,<br>
1.78 deraadt 972: "The crashorama villaination<br>
1.76 deraadt 973: lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
974: the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
975: in the cyber cider documation<br>
976: universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
977: cohabitationizizingation"<br>
978: OK stop.<br>
979: I get it.<br>
980: <a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
981: Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
982: but he was only open for business.<br></a>
983: I get it.<br>
984: Where's my pencils?<br>
985: Bring me my mic!<br>
986: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
987: Be Open<br>
988: Be Vocal<br>
989: Stay Open<br>
990: Stay Vocal<br>
991: <br>
992: (repeat)<br>
993: <br>
994: Then he has another beer and<br>
995: gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
996: Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
997: And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
998: the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
999: where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
1000: a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
1001: and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
1002: or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
1003: and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
1004: And squeeze in five concepts<br>
1005: every time, every song!<br>
1006: And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
1007: if I draw the device wrong!<br>
1008: "It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
1009: And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
1010: cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
1011: <br>
1012: (beat boxin')<br>
1013: <br>
1014: <br>
1015: </td></tr></table>
1016: <p>
1017: <em>
1018: <br>
1019: </em>
1020:
1021: <hr>
1022: <a name=40></a>
1023: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
1024: 4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
1025: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1026: <tr>
1027: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1028: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.0 or other items]</a><br>
1029: OpenBSD 4.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1030: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1031: <br>
1032: 2:40 minutes
1033: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
1034: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
1035: <br>
1036: <a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
1037: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
1038: <br>
1039: <br>
1040: <em>
1041: The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
1.77 deraadt 1042: resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
1.76 deraadt 1043: servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
1.77 deraadt 1044: sells to continue our development goals.
1.76 deraadt 1045: <br>
1046: <br>
1047: While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
1.77 deraadt 1048: around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
1049: or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
1.76 deraadt 1050: the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
1051: approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
1052: the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
1053: write and record a song that also matches the theme.
1054: <br>
1055: <br>
1056: Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
1057: so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
1058: <br>
1059: <br>
1060: This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
1061: try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
1062: instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
1063: write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
1064: that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
1.77 deraadt 1065: <br>
1066: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1067: OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
1068: with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
1.77 deraadt 1069: of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
1070: songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
1071: under such duress that much of our code gets written.
1.76 deraadt 1072: <br>
1073: <br>
1074: We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
1075: Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
1076: returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
1077: other developers.
1078: </em>
1079: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1080: <br>
1081: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1082: <br>
1083: <br>
1084: <br>
1085: Humppa negala<br>
1086: Humppa negala<br>
1087: Humppa negala<br>
1088: Venismechah<br>
1089: <br>
1090: Humppa negala<br>
1091: Humppa negala<br>
1092: Humppa negala<br>
1093: Venismechah<br>
1094: <br>
1095: Humppa neranenah<br>
1096: Humppa neranenah<br>
1097: Humppa neranenah<br>
1098: Venismechah<br>
1099: <br>
1100: Humppa neranenah<br>
1101: Humppa neranenah<br>
1102: Humppa neranenah<br>
1103: Venismechah<br>
1104: <br>
1105: Uru, uru achim!<br>
1106: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1107: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1108: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1109: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1110: uru achim!<br>
1111: uru achim!<br>
1112: OpenBSD!<br>
1113: <br>
1114: <br>
1115: (circus torture)<br>
1116: <br>
1117: <br>
1118: Humppa negala<br>
1119: Humppa negala<br>
1120: Humppa negala<br>
1121: Venismechah<br>
1122: <br>
1123: Humppa negala<br>
1124: Humppa negala<br>
1125: Humppa negala<br>
1126: Venismechah<br>
1127: <br>
1128: Humppa neranenah<br>
1129: Humppa neranenah<br>
1130: Humppa neranenah<br>
1131: Venismechah<br>
1132: <br>
1133: Humppa neranenah<br>
1134: Humppa neranenah<br>
1135: Humppa neranenah<br>
1136: Venismechah<br>
1137: <br>
1138: Uru, uru achim!<br>
1139: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1140: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1141: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1142: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1143: uru achim!<br>
1144: uru achim!<br>
1145: OpenBSD!<br>
1146: <br>
1147: <br>
1148: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1149: <img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
1150: </td></tr></table>
1151: <p>
1152: <em>
1.90 deraadt 1153: Based on the traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
1.76 deraadt 1154: Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
1.112 deraadt 1155: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1156: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1157: Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
1.94 tobias 1158: Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.76 deraadt 1159: <br>
1160: <br>
1161: </em>
1162:
1163: <hr>
1.63 deraadt 1164: <a name=39></a>
1.64 jolan 1165: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
1.63 deraadt 1166: 3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
1167: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1168: <tr>
1169: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1170: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.9 or other items]</a><br>
1171: OpenBSD 3.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1172: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1173: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1174: 4:00 minutes
1175: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
1176: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.63 deraadt 1177: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1178: <a href="images/Blob.jpg">
1179: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
1.63 deraadt 1180: <br>
1181: <br>
1182: <em>
1183: OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
1184: is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
1185: without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
1186: obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
1187: and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
1188: for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
1189: <br>
1190: <br>
1191: Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
1192: cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
1193: <br>
1194: <br>
1195: But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
1196: quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
1197: no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
1198: can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
1199: <br>
1200: <br>
1201: <ul>
1202: <li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
1203: at any time.<br>
1204: <br>
1205: <li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
1206: <br>
1207: <li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
1208: <br>
1209: <li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
1210: <br>
1211: <li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
1212: <br>
1213: <li>
1214: Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
1215: less portable.<br>
1216: <br>
1217: <li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
1218: </ul>
1219: <br>
1220: <br>
1221: This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
1222: source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
1223: new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
1224: vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
1225: the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
1226: assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
1227: </em>
1228: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1229: <br>
1230: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1231: <br><br><br>
1232: Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
1233: when we found him on the beach,<br>
1234: there was nothin' shady<br>
1235: you could bounce him on your knee<br>
1236: like a ba-ba-ball<br>
1237: and his first little word was adorable<br>
1238: <br>
1239: He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1240: blah blah blah<br>
1241: Blah!<br>
1242: <br>
1243: <br>
1244: Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
1245: But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
1246: <br>
1247: <br>
1248: Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
1249: He could get your motor runnin'<br>
1250: with a drop of goo<br>
1251: He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
1252: But by the time he graduated<br>
1253: Blob was business slime!<br>
1254: <br>
1255: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1256: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1257: blah blah<br>
1258: <br>
1259: <br>
1260: He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
1261: <br>
1262: <br>
1263: Now everybody had it<br>
1264: they was drivin' around<br>
1265: They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
1266: for convenience now<br>
1267: Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
1268: And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
1269: <br>
1270: <br>
1271: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1272: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1273: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1274: blah blah<br>
1275: <br>
1276: <br>
1277: It's linkin' time!<br>
1278: <br>
1279: <br>
1280: Now it was out of control<br>
1281: n' fishy's came to depend<br>
1282: on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
1283: Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
1284: Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
1285: <br>
1286: <br>
1287: He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1288: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1289: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1290: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1291: B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
1292: <br>
1293: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1294: Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
1.63 deraadt 1295: And he battled the Blob<br>
1296: who had crossed the line<br>
1297: He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
1298: I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
1299: <br>
1300: <br>
1301: But it was too late!<br>
1302: Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
1303: He wants your video!<br>
1304: Ya he wants your net!<br>
1305: He wants your drive!<br>
1306: He wants it all!!<br>
1307: <br>
1308: <br>
1309: Somebody help us!<br>
1310: Noooooooo!<br>
1311: NVIDIA!<br>
1312: Intel!<br>
1313: Atheros!<br>
1314: 3-Ware!<br>
1315: VIA!<br>
1316: ATI!<br>
1317: Broadcom!<br>
1318: TI!<br>
1319: Myricom!<br>
1320: HighPoint!<br>
1321: Adaptec!<br>
1322: Mylex!<br>
1323: ICP Vortex!<br>
1324: and IBM!<br>
1325: Takin' over the world!<br>
1326: <br>
1327: <br>
1328: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1329: <img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
1.63 deraadt 1330: </td></tr></table>
1331: <p>
1332: <em>
1333: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 1334: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1335: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.63 deraadt 1336: Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
1337: Theo de Raadt.
1338: Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
1339: Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
1340: Drums by Jim Buick.
1341: <br>
1342: <br>
1343: </em>
1344:
1345: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 1346: <a name=38></a>
1347: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
1348: 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
1349: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1350: <tr>
1351: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1352: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]</a><br>
1353: OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1354: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1355: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1356: 4:24 minutes
1357: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
1358: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
1359: Instrumental version
1360: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
1361: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
1.58 deraadt 1362: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1363: <a href="images/Jones.jpg">
1364: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
1.58 deraadt 1365: <br>
1366: <br>
1367: <em>
1368: For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
1369: out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
1370: programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
1371: their devices.
1372: <p>
1373: Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
1374: for the
1.70 steven 1375: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1376: Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
1377: They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
1378: for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
1379: affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
1380: course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
1.59 jolan 1381: bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
1382: issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
1383: cannot solve these issues.
1.58 deraadt 1384: <p>
1385: The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
1386: of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
1387: public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
1388: different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
1389: development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
1390: "quality" to show its head.
1391: <p>
1392: RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
1393: <br>
1394: <ul>
1.60 pvalchev 1395: <li>Redundancy
1.58 deraadt 1396: <li>Repair
1397: </ul>
1398: You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
1.60 pvalchev 1399: fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
1400: array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
1.58 deraadt 1401: itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
1402: <p>
1403: Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
1404: sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
1405: so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
1406: never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
1407: <p>
1408: Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
1409: tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
1.67 jolan 1410: is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
1.58 deraadt 1411: we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
1412: <p>
1413: And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
1414: vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
1415: the AMI controllers.
1416: <p>
1417: There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
1418: rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
1419: basic RAID management:
1420: <ul>
1421: <li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
1422: <li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
1423: <li>Being able to silence the buzzer
1424: <li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
1425: </ul>
1426: <p>
1427: The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
1428: And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
1429: all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
1430: <p>
1431: Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
1432: work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
1433: or do some reverse engineering for their products.
1434: <p>
1.60 pvalchev 1435: But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
1436: ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
1.58 deraadt 1437: controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
1438: may mean we can never get documentation for the
1.70 steven 1439: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1440: controllers.
1441: The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
1442: would not get documentation, either.
1443: 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
1444: look saintly.
1445: <p>
1446: Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
1447: in OpenBSD, please buy
1448: <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
1449: RAID cards. And everything
1.88 miod 1450: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
1.58 deraadt 1451: will just work</a>.
1452: <p>
1453: And keep pestering the other vendors.
1454: <br>
1455: </em>
1456: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1457: <br>
1458: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1459: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1460: Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
1461: <br>
1462: Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
1463: <br>
1464: Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
1465: treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
1466: morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
1467: hackologist and adventurer!<br>
1468: <br>
1469: Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
1470: the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
1471: vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
1472: <br>
1473: Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
1474: <br>
1475: <br>
1476: <font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
1477: Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
1478: <br>
1479: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1480: I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
1481: <br>
1482: <br>
1483: <font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
1484: They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
1485: <br>
1486: <br>
1487: <font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
1488: You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
1489: <br>
1490: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1491: Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
1492: <br>
1493: <br>
1494: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1495: SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
1496: <br>
1497: <font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
1498: API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
1499: <br>
1500: <br>
1501: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1502: Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
1503: there before him
1504: lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
1505: secure operating system,
1506: to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
1507: the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
1508: <br>
1509: Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
1510: Puffiana Jones!<br>
1511: <br>
1512: <br>
1513: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1514: <img height=2160 width=380 src="images/38song.gif"><br>
1.58 deraadt 1515: </td></tr></table>
1516: <p>
1517: <em>
1518: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1519: The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
1520: Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
1.112 deraadt 1521: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1522: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.58 deraadt 1523: <br>
1524: <br>
1525: </em>
1526:
1527: <hr>
1.44 deraadt 1528: <a name=37></a>
1529: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
1530: 3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
1531: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1532: <tr>
1533: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1534: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]</a><br>
1535: OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1536: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1537: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1538: 10:08 minutes
1539: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
1540: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 1541: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1542: <a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
1543: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
1.44 deraadt 1544: <br>
1545: <br>
1546: <em>
1547: For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
1548: good device support.<br>
1549: <br>
1550: Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
1551: programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
1552: Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
1553: here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
1554: documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
1555: drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
1556: ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
1557: still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
1.62 brad 1558: Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
1.46 henning 1559: solved in the ethernet market.<br>
1.44 deraadt 1560: <br>
1561: Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
1562: Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
1563: devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
1564: preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
1565: Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
1566: phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
1567: companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
1568: <br>
1569: The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
1570: <br>
1571: Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
1572: We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
1573: could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
1.52 deraadt 1574: not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
1.44 deraadt 1575: particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
1576: everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
1577: <br>
1578:
1579: Want to help us? Avoid
1580: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
1581: Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
1582: Heck, avoid buying even regular
1.48 deraadt 1583: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
1.44 deraadt 1584: to send a message.
1.48 deraadt 1585: If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
1.44 deraadt 1586: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
1587: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
1588: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
1589: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
1590: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
1591: Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
1.52 deraadt 1592: which chipsets into which product.
1.44 deraadt 1593: <br>
1594: <br>
1595: Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
1.56 cloder 1596: Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
1.44 deraadt 1597: the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
1598: What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
1599: Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
1600: distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
1.49 nick 1601: are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
1.44 deraadt 1602: development information for all, but are even going further and
1603: telling their development communities to not work with us at
1604: pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
1605: <br>
1606: </em>
1607: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1608: <br>
1609: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1610: The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
1611: her uncles on the farm,<br>
1612: send out the alarm<br>
1613: and the shit storm flies<br>
1614: E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
1615: With Puffathy inside,<br>
1616: twisting up a ride<br>
1617: to the land of OS<br>
1618: Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
1619: The wicked lawyers dead<br>
1620: The open slippers red are<br>
1621: Hers to take<br>
1622: <br>
1.53 otto 1623: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1624: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1625: <br>
1626: The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
1627: To get yourself back home<br>
1628: Take this yellow road and<br>
1.47 pvalchev 1629: You'll be fine<br>
1.44 deraadt 1630: Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
1631: Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
1632: give Taiwan your biz<br>
1633: You'll never lose<br>
1634: The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
1635: Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
1636: lazy and insane<br>
1637: but they sang OK<br>
1638: <br>
1.53 otto 1639: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1640: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1641: <br>
1642: Finally we're through the trees<br>
1643: The city glows<br>
1644: It's positively green<br>
1645: Pompously the wizard booms<br>
1646: He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
1647: <br>
1648: Go to the west<br>
1649: You must pass the test<br>
1650: For me<br>
1651: Bring me the ride<br>
1652: of the witch I despise<br>
1653: And you'll be free<br>
1654: <br>
1655: You don't need the broom<br>
1656: You don't need the shoes<br>
1657: You don't need the wiz<br>
1658: You will never lose<br>
1659: You have all you need<br>
1660: You always had heart<br>
1661: You always had courage<br>
1662: Did somebody fart?<br>
1663: You always had brains<br>
1664: You answered each call<br>
1.57 deraadt 1665: And this may surprise you<br>
1.44 deraadt 1666: But you've got some balls<br>
1667: So double click heels<br>
1668: and work with Taiwan<br>
1669: And speak to your doggie<br>
1670: You're already gone....<br>
1671: <br>
1672: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1673: <img height=1079 width=380 src="images/37song.gif"><br>
1.44 deraadt 1674: </td></tr></table>
1675: <p>
1676: <em>
1677: Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
1678: Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
1679: Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
1680: Semaka,
1681: guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
1.55 tom 1682: Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 1683: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at
1684: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.44 deraadt 1685: <br>
1686: <br>
1687: </em>
1688:
1689: <hr>
1.37 deraadt 1690: <a name=36></a>
1691: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
1692: 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
1693: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1694: <tr>
1695: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1696: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.6 or other items]</a><br>
1697: OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1698: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1699: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1700: 4:00 minutes
1701: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
1702: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
1.37 deraadt 1703: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1704: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
1705: <img width=227 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
1.37 deraadt 1706: <br>
1707: <br>
1708: <em>
1709: What is up with some free software providers?!
1710: They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
1711: <p>
1712: While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
1713: has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
1714: we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
1.41 deraadt 1715: to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
1.37 deraadt 1716: going to remember them in the end.
1717: <p>
1718: This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
1719: have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
1720: offerings in the last few years:
1721: <ul>
1722: <li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
1723: developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
1724: called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
1725: code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
1726: we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
1727: stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
1728: told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
1729: replacement effort.
1.41 deraadt 1730: Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
1.37 deraadt 1731: <p>
1732: <li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
1733: packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
1734: that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
1735: were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
1736: and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
1737: one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
1738: <p>
1739: <li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
1740: of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
1741: web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
1742: and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
1.40 jolan 1743: a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
1.51 jcs 1744: doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
1.37 deraadt 1745: protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
1746: </ul>
1747: So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
1748: others who will follow them:
1749: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
1750: replace it.
1751: <br>
1752: </em>
1753: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1754: <br>
1755: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1756: <br>
1757: <br>
1758: Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
1759: Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
1760: Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
1761: Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
1762: <p>
1763: But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
1.38 pvalchev 1764: Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
1.37 deraadt 1765: Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
1766: Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
1767: <p>
1768: <br>
1769: He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
1770: So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
1771: Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
1772: They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
1773: <p>
1774: So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
1775: Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
1776: Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
1777: Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
1778: <p>
1779: <br>
1780: Pond-erosa Puff<br>
1781: wouldn't take no guff<br>
1.41 deraadt 1782: Water oughta be clean and free<br>
1.37 deraadt 1783: So he fought the fight<br>
1784: and he set things right<br>
1785: With his OpenBSD<br>
1786: <p>
1787: <br>
1788: Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
1789: But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
1790: Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
1791: He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
1792: <p>
1793: But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
1794: Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
1795: Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
1796: Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
1797: <p>
1798: <br>
1799: "The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
1800: And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
1.51 jcs 1801: "No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1802: Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
1803: <p>
1804: Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
1805: So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
1806: Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
1807: So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
1808: <p>
1809: <br>
1810: CHORUS<br>
1811: <p>
1812: <br>
1813: So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
1814: The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
1815: Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
1.42 deraadt 1816: Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1817: <p>
1818: So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
1819: Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
1820: They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
1821: Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
1822: <p>
1823: <br>
1824: I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
1.39 mcbride 1825: n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1826: You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
1827: and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
1828: <p>
1829: I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
1830: of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
1.41 deraadt 1831: So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
1832: Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1833: <p>
1834: <br>
1835: CHORUS<br>
1836: <br>
1837: <p>
1838: That's right!<br>
1839: I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
1840: Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
1841: <br>
1842: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1843: <img height=1634 width=263 src="images/36song.gif"><br>
1.37 deraadt 1844: </td></tr></table>
1845: <p>
1846: <em>
1847: Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
1848: Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
1849: Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
1.112 deraadt 1850: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.37 deraadt 1851: <br>
1852: <br>
1853: </em>
1854:
1855: <hr>
1.30 deraadt 1856: <a name=35></a>
1.33 deraadt 1857: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
1858: 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
1.30 deraadt 1859: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1860: <tr>
1861: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 1862: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.5 or other items]</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1863: OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.55 tom 1864: uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
1.30 deraadt 1865: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1866: 5:21 minutes
1867: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
1868: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1869: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1870: <a href="images/Carp.gif">
1871: <img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
1.30 deraadt 1872: <br>
1873: <br>
1874: <em>
1875: A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
1876: and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
1877: themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
1878: redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
1879: Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
1880: <p>
1881: We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
1882: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
1883: and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
1884: firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
1885: them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
1886: sessions. Our
1887: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
1888: protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
1889: it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
1890: network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
1891: firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
1892: the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
1893: <p>
1894: The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
1895: 90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
1896: Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
1897: Redundancy Protocol); on
1898: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
1899: March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
1900: "Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
1901: that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
1902: standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
1903: IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
1904: though there was a patent in the space. Why?
1905: <a href="http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/documents/standards/general-comms/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
1906: There was much deliberation</a>
1907: at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
1908: politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
1909: standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
1910: (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
1911: programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
1912: RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
1913: the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
1914: and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
1915: eh?
1916: <p>
1917: Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
1918: (HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
1919: recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
1920: -- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
1921: claim patent rights.
1922: <p>
1923: On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
1924: lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
1925: its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
1926: impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
1927: implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
1928: Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
1929: small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
1930: against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
1931: members took note of our complaints,
1932: <a href="http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
1933: however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
1934: patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
1935: <p>
1936: A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
1937: to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
1938: and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
1939: backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
1940: avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
1.55 tom 1941: participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
1.30 deraadt 1942: Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
1943: is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
1944: like all others, except against the community.
1945: <p>
1946: Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
1947: benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
1948: <p>
1949: Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
1950: correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
1951: designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
1952: problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
1953: same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
1954: document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
1955: We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
1956: lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
1957: it to use cryptography.
1958: <p>
1959: The combination of
1960: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
1961: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
1962: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
1963: has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
1964: have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
1965: running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
1966: group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
1967: our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
1968: to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
1969: this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
1970: <p>
1971: As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
1972: regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
1973: for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
1974: to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
1975: were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
1976: anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
1977: We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
1978: these decisions, but they declined to reply.
1979: <p>
1980: This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
1981: this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
1982: <br>
1983: </em>
1984: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1985: <br>
1986: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1987: <br>
1988: <br>
1989: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1990: Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
1991: <br>
1992: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1993: A what?
1994: <br>
1995: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1996: A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
1997: <br>
1998: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1999: Well, it's free isn't it?
2000: <br>
2001: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2002: Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
2003: <br>
2004: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2005: What?
2006: <br>
2007: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2008: He is an.... redundancy protocol.
2009: <br>
2010: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2011: CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
2012: <br>
2013: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2014: Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
2015: they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
2016: <br>
2017: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2018: You must be a looney.
2019: <br>
2020: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2021: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
2022: because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
2023: that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
2024: standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
2025: on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
2026: Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
2027: patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
2028: companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
2029: bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
2030: <br>
2031: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2032: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
2033: <br>
2034: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2035: Yes.
2036: <br>
2037: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2038: For a free redundancy protocol?
2039: <br>
2040: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2041: Yes.
2042: <br>
2043: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2044: You are a looney.
2045: <br>
2046: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2047: Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
2048: patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
2049: VRRP.
2050: <br>
2051: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2052: You don't need a license for your VRRP.
2053: <br>
2054: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1.32 otto 2055: I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
1.30 deraadt 2056: <br>
2057: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2058: There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
2059: <br>
2060: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2061: Yes there is!
2062: <br>
2063: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2064: Isn't!
2065: <br>
2066: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2067: Is!
2068: <br>
2069: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2070: Isn't!
2071: <br>
2072: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2073: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
2074: <br>
2075: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2076: This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
2077: out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
2078: <br>
2079: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2080: The man didn't have the right form.
2081: <br>
2082: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2083: What man?
2084: <br>
2085: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2086: Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
2087: <br>
2088: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2089: The looney detector van, you mean.
2090: <br>
2091: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2092: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
2093: <br>
2094: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2095: What redundancy detector van?
2096: <br>
2097: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2098: The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
2099: <br>
2100: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2101: Cizzz-coeee?
2102: <br>
2103: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2104: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
2105: so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
2106: pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
2107: being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
2108: <br>
2109: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1.34 otto 2110: How much did you pay for that?
1.30 deraadt 2111: <br>
2112: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2113: Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
2114: <br>
2115: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2116: What PIX?
2117: <br>
2118: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2119: The PIX I'm replacing!
2120: <br>
2121: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2122: So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
2123: license it?
2124: <br>
2125: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2126: There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
2127: protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
2128: <br>
2129: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2130: No they didn't!
2131: <br>
2132: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2133: Did!
2134: <br>
2135: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2136: Didn't!
2137: <br>
2138: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2139: Did, did, did and did!
2140: <br>
2141: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2142: Oh, all right.
2143: <br>
2144: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2145: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
2146: license?
2147: <br>
2148: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2149: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
2150: <br>
2151: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2152: In that case, give me a Firewall License.
2153: <br>
2154: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2155: A license?
2156: <br>
2157: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2158: Yes.
2159: <br>
2160: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2161: For your firewall?
2162: <br>
2163: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2164: No.
2165: <br>
2166: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2167: No?
2168: <br>
2169: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2170: No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
2171: <br>
2172: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2173: You're off your chump.
2174: <br>
2175: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2176: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
1.43 deraadt 2177: to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
1.30 deraadt 2178: semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
2179: listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
2180: <br>
2181: <br>
2182: A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
2183: <br>
2184: VRRP, philosophically,<br>
2185: must ipso facto standard be<br>
2186: But standard it<br>
2187: needs to be free<br>
2188: vis a vis<br>
2189: the IETF<br>
2190: you see?<br>
2191: <br>
2192: But can VRRP<br>
2193: be said to be<br>
2194: or not to be<br>
2195: a standard, see,<br>
2196: when VRRP can not be free,<br>
2197: due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
2198: <br>
2199: Singing...<br>
2200: <br>
2201: La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
2202: VRRP ain't free.<br>
2203: O P E N B S D<br>
2204: CARP is free<br>
2205: <br>
2206: Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
2207: let through IETF to mean<br>
2208: my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
2209: No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
2210: <br>
2211: Fiddle dee dum,<br>
2212: Fiddle dee dee,<br>
2213: CARP and PF are free.<br>
2214: <br>
2215: 1 1 2,<br>
2216: Tee Hee Hee,<br>
2217: CARP and PF are free.<br>
2218: <br>
2219: My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
2220: bisected accidentally,<br>
2221: one summer afternoon by me.<br>
2222: Redundancy's good when free.<br>
2223: <br>
2224: Redundancy must be free.<br>
2225: Redundancy must be free.<br>
2226: <br>
2227: The End<br>
2228: <br>
2229: Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
2230: <br>
2231: No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
2232: <br>
2233: Geddy must be free.<br>
2234: <br>
2235: <br>
2236: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2237: <img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
1.30 deraadt 2238: </td></tr></table>
2239: <p>
2240: <em>
2241: <font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
2242: Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
2243: <br>
1.34 otto 2244: <font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
1.30 deraadt 2245: Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
1.37 deraadt 2246: Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
1.30 deraadt 2247: Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
2248: Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
2249: <br>
2250: <br>
2251: </em>
2252:
2253: <hr>
1.20 deraadt 2254: <a name=34></a>
1.33 deraadt 2255: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
2256: 3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
1.20 deraadt 2257: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2258: <tr>
2259: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 2260: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2261: OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2262: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2263: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2264: 3:30 minutes
2265: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
2266: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2267: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2268: <a href="images/Hood.gif">
2269: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
1.20 deraadt 2270: <br>
2271: <br>
2272: <em>
2273: Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
1.26 deraadt 2274: the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
1.20 deraadt 2275: forces of the draconian government!
2276: <p>
2277: <br>
2278: As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
2279: making release artwork and music which are allegorical
2280: of recent happenings.
2281: <p>
2282: Two years ago we became involved with the University
2283: of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
2284: security research and development .. on things that
2285: we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
2286: wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
2287: DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
2288: credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
2289: a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
2290: promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
2291: was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
1.21 deraadt 2292: than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
1.20 deraadt 2293: forces of government, and needed to be careful.
2294: <p>
2295: A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
2296: and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
2297: they also aggressively backed out of contractual
2298: obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
1.67 jolan 2299: this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
1.20 deraadt 2300: because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
1.55 tom 2301: newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
1.20 deraadt 2302: making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
2303: theft of oil.
2304: <p>
2305: The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
2306: DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
2307: <p>
2308: "As a result of the DARPA review of the
2309: project, and due to world events and the evolving
2310: threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
2311: the Government on April 21 advised the University
2312: to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
2313: the project."
2314: <p>
2315: That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
2316: We had lost financial support, but the release of the
2317: statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
2318: of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
2319: <p>
2320: Since the termination came near natural contract
2321: termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
2322: than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
2323: stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
2324: we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
1.61 grunk 2325: proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
1.20 deraadt 2326: "Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
2327: developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
2328: <p>
2329: We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
2330: we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
2331: of Robin Hood.
2332: </em>
2333: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2334: <br>
2335: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2336: <br>
2337: Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
2338: Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
2339: He had found the crusades<br>
2340: were an endless charade<br>
2341: So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
2342: <br>
2343: <br>
2344: One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
2345: Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
2346: Clever chums they did find<br>
2347: other fish of their kind<br>
2348: Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
2349: <br>
2350: <br>
2351: Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
2352: The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
2353: With CD's and their freedom<br>
2354: for to share online<br>
2355: And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
2356: <br>
2357: <br>
2358: So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
2359: and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
2360: Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
2361: to the teaming schools<br>
2362: Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
2363: <br>
2364: <br>
2365: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2366: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2367: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2368: So raise up your glass and<br>
2369: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2370: Fish for never running<br>
2371: and making something good!<br>
2372: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2373: <br>
2374: <br>
2375: Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
2376: The Hood's a bad ball<br>
2377: Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
2378: He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
2379: Think he's a hero?<br>
2380: Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
1.24 deraadt 2381: He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
1.20 deraadt 2382: Read the Wanted poster<br>
2383: of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
2384: We gettin' back the booty<br>
2385: or we take away your worms too<br>
2386: <br>
2387: <br>
2388: Yo! Word to the classes<br>
2389: Put on your glasses<br>
2390: I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
2391: Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
2392: He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
2393: I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
2394: who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
2395: And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
2396: happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
2397: No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
2398: and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
2399: <br>
2400: <br>
2401: Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
1.25 deraadt 2402: The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
1.20 deraadt 2403: And took back all the booty<br>
2404: Puff intended for the poor<br>
2405: The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
2406: <br>
2407: <br>
2408: Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
2409: And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
2410: He loaded all the loot<br>
2411: to give it back and big surprise<br>
2412: He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
2413: <br>
2414: <br>
2415: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2416: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2417: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2418: So raise up your glass and<br>
2419: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2420: Fish for never running<br>
2421: and making something good!<br>
2422: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2423: <br>
2424:
2425: <br>
2426: <br>
2427: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2428: <img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
1.20 deraadt 2429: </td></tr></table>
2430: <p>
2431: <em>
2432: Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
2433: Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2434: <br>
2435: Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
2436: <br>
2437: Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
1.55 tom 2438: Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
1.20 deraadt 2439: <br>
2440: Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
2441: Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
2442: <br>
2443: </em>
2444:
1.23 jose 2445: <br>
2446: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 2447: <a name=33></a>
1.33 deraadt 2448: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
2449: 3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2450: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2451: <tr>
2452: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2453: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2454: OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2455: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2456: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2457: 4:00 minutes
2458: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
2459: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2460: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2461: <a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
2462: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
1.12 deraadt 2463: <br>
2464: <br>
1.14 deraadt 2465: <em>
1.69 deraadt 2466: Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
2467: face some pretty crazy challenges.
1.12 deraadt 2468: <br>
1.69 deraadt 2469: This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
2470: we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
2471: request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
2472: III processors. We want documentation, because
2473: these are the fastest processors with a per-page
2474: eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
2475: our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
2476: the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
2477: this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
1.36 deraadt 2478: mode.<br>
2479: <br>
2480: And it is going to be faster...<br>
1.12 deraadt 2481: </em>
1.11 deraadt 2482: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2483: Deep through the mists of time<br>
2484: Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
2485: Back to the age of darkness<br>
2486: Black was the protocol<br>
2487: <p>
2488: A King ruled the web with fear<br>
2489: Spilling the blood of men<br>
2490: Then from the ocean came<br>
2491: Puff the Barbarian<br>
1.17 deraadt 2492: <br>
2493: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2494: Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
2495: Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
2496: Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
2497: Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
2498: <p>
2499: Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
2500: A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
2501: Constraints were slain as well<br>
2502: Hacked his way out to the C<br>
2503: <p>
2504: And there he found<br>
2505: His destiny<br>
2506: Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
2507: "Xor taking care of me"<br>
2508: <p>
2509: Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
2510: "Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
2511: Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
2512: Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
2513: <p>
2514: At the tower Puff appealed<br>
2515: For the wisdom of the One<br>
2516: Denied, his mind did reel<br>
2517: Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
2518: <p>
2519: Broke down the guard<br>
2520: Cause math is hard<br>
1.18 deraadt 2521: Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
1.11 deraadt 2522: All alone and only bones<br>
2523: <p>
2524: Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
2525: Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
2526: And Puff, the land secured<br>
2527: The new King Barbarian!<br>
2528: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2529: <img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
1.11 deraadt 2530: </td></tr></table>
2531: <p>
2532: <em>
2533: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
2534: Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2535: <br>
2536: Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
2537: drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2538: </em>
2539:
2540: <br>
2541: <hr>
1.9 millert 2542: <a name=32></a>
1.33 deraadt 2543: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
2544: 3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2545: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2546: <tr>
2547: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2548: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2549: OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2550: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2551: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2552: 3:00 minutes
2553: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
2554: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2555: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2556: <a href="images/MrPond.gif">
2557: <img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2558: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.9 millert 2559: Goldflipper<br>
2560: With golden skin<br>
2561: and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
2562: He's the machine<br>
2563: Designed to dismember your life<br>
2564: <p>
2565: And the fish<br>
2566: Protecting us all from the cat<br>
2567: And the cat<br>
2568: Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
2569: <p>
2570: Cyborg on a mission<br>
2571: To do some Puff fishin'<br>
2572: The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
2573: <p>
2574: (short instrumental intro)
1.1 deraadt 2575: <p>
1.9 millert 2576: You'll need some machismo to<br>
2577: catch the spikey one<br>
2578: He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
2579: make the system run<br>
1.1 deraadt 2580: <p>
1.9 millert 2581: But Flip's here for fun<br>
2582: and without a gun<br>
2583: He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
1.1 deraadt 2584: <p>
1.9 millert 2585: She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
2586: such a sexy catch<br>
2587: Is she spying on him or<br>
2588: just a seafood match?<br>
1.1 deraadt 2589: <p>
1.9 millert 2590: Oh double seven<br>
2591: Send me to Heaven<br>
2592: Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
1.1 deraadt 2593: <p>
1.9 millert 2594: The women are fond<br>
2595: She knows what to do<br>
2596: She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
1.1 deraadt 2597: <p>
1.9 millert 2598: Goldflipper is gone<br>
2599: Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
1.11 deraadt 2600: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2601: <br>
2602: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2603: <p>
2604: <em>
1.9 millert 2605: Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.1 deraadt 2606: <br>
1.9 millert 2607: Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
2608: Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
2609: Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
1.1 deraadt 2610: </em>
2611:
2612: <br>
2613: <hr>
1.3 ian 2614: <a name=31></a>
1.33 deraadt 2615: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
2616: 3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2617: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2618: <tr>
2619: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2620: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2621: OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2622: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2623: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2624: 3:00 minutes
2625: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2626: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2627: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2628: <a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
2629: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2630: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2631: BSD fight buffer reign<br>
2632: Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
2633: Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
2634: Puffy rip attacker out<br>
2635: <p>
2636: Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2637: Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2638: <p>
2639: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2640: Über tragic<br>
2641: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2642: <p>
2643: Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
2644: Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
2645: Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
2646: Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
1.11 deraadt 2647: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2648: <p>
2649: Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2650: Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2651: <p>
2652: Chorus
2653: <p>
2654: Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
2655: Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
2656: Penguin lurking under bed<br>
2657: Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
2658: <p>
2659: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2660: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2661: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2662: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2663: <p>
2664: Chorus<br>
1.11 deraadt 2665: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2666: <p>
2667: <em>
1.3 ian 2668: Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
1.1 deraadt 2669: Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
2670: drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
2671: <br>
1.3 ian 2672: Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
1.1 deraadt 2673: <br>
2674: Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2675: </em>
2676:
1.8 millert 2677: <br>
2678: <hr>
1.9 millert 2679: <a name=30></a>
1.33 deraadt 2680: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
2681: 3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2682: <p>
2683: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
2684: <tr>
1.76 deraadt 2685: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2686: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2687: OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2688: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2689: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2690: 3:00 minutes
2691: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2692: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2693: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2694: <a href="images/Rock.jpg">
2695: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2696: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2697: <br>
2698: <br>
1.9 millert 2699: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
2700: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1.8 millert 2701: <p>
1.9 millert 2702: During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
2703: OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
1.8 millert 2704: <p>
1.9 millert 2705: I'm secure by default<br>
1.8 millert 2706: <p>
1.27 deraadt 2707: They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
1.9 millert 2708: deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
1.8 millert 2709: <p>
1.9 millert 2710: RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
1.8 millert 2711: <p>
1.16 deraadt 2712: Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
1.9 millert 2713: I'm secure by default<br>
2714: stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
1.8 millert 2715: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2716: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.8 millert 2717: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2718: </td></tr></table>
2719: <p>
1.8 millert 2720: <em>
1.9 millert 2721: By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
2722: <br>
2723: Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
1.35 nick 2724: John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
1.9 millert 2725: <br>
2726: Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
1.8 millert 2727: <br>
1.9 millert 2728: Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
1.8 millert 2729: </em>
2730:
1.1 deraadt 2731: <hr>
1.79 deraadt 2732: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="OpenBSD"></a>
2733: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.117 ! damien 2734: <br><small>$OpenBSD: lyrics.html,v 1.116 2009/09/08 04:59:34 deraadt Exp $</small>
1.79 deraadt 2735:
1.1 deraadt 2736: </body>
2737: </html>
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