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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>
1.126 deraadt 34: <td valign="top">
1.128 deraadt 35: <a href="#51">5.1: "Bug Busters!"</a>,
36: <a href="#audio_extra51">"Shut up and Hack"</a> and
37: <a href="#audio_extra51b">"Sonate aux insomniaques"</a><br>
1.127 deraadt 38: <a href="#50">5.0: "What Me Worry?"</a><br>
1.123 deraadt 39: <a href="#49">4.9: "The Answer"<br>
1.127 deraadt 40: <a href="#48">4.8: "El Puffiachi"</a><br>
41: <a href="#47">4.7: "I'm still here"</a><br>
42: <a href="#46">4.6: "Planet of the Users"</a><br>
43: <a href="#45">4.5: "Games"</a><br>
44: <a href="#44">4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a><br>
45: <a href="#43">4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"</a><br>
46: <a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"</a><br>
47: <a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a><br>
1.126 deraadt 48: </td><td valign="top" width="1%">
49: <br>
50: </td><td valign="top">
1.89 deraadt 51: <a href="#40">4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a> and
1.126 deraadt 52: <a href="#audio_extra40">"OpenVOX"</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 53: <a href="#39">3.9: "Blob!"</a><br>
54: <a href="#38">3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a><br>
55: <a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS"</a><br>
56: <a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a><br>
57: <a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a><br>
1.124 deraadt 58: <a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a><br>
1.119 deraadt 59: <a href="#33">3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a><br>
1.116 deraadt 60: <a href="#32">3.2: "Goldflipper"</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 61: <a href="#31">3.1: "Systemagic"</a><br>
62: <a href="#30">3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a><br>
1.126 deraadt 63: </td></tr></table>
1.71 deraadt 64: <br>
1.126 deraadt 65: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1%2b=Add">
1.72 deraadt 66: <img align="left" height=158 width=158 hspace="5" vspace="0" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
1.71 deraadt 67: </a>
1.126 deraadt 68: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA2=1&CDA2%2b=Add">
69: <img align="left" height=158 width=158 hspace="5" vspace="0" src="images/cdaudio2-m.gif">
70: </a>
71: Two audio CDs are also available which contain approximately 5 years of songs each.
72: <p>
73: Click to order
74: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1%2b=Add">"The Songs 3.0 - 4.0"</a>
75: and
76: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA2=1&CDA2%2b=Add">"The Songs 4.1 - 5.1"</a>.
77: <p>
78: Both CDs contain extra tracks by the artist Ty Semaka
79: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind").
80: "The Songs 4.1 - 5.1" also contains another track by audio-subsystem
81: developer Alexandre Ratchov, mixed and produced using OpenBSD code.
82: <br clear=all>
83: <p>
84:
85: <hr>
86: <a name=51></a>
87: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="51.html">
88: 5.1: "Bug Busters!"</a></font></h2>
89: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
90: <tr>
91: <td valign="top" width="30%">
92: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
93: <a href="51.html">OpenBSD 5.1</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
94: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
95: <br>
96: 2:47 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song51.mp3">(MP3 5.1MB)</a>
97: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song51.ogg">(OGG 4.0MB)</a><br>
98: <br>
99: <a href="images/Bugbusters.jpg">
100: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Bugbusters" src="images/Bugbusters.jpg"></a>
101: <br>
102: <br>
103: <em>
104: [no commentary yet]
105: <br>
106: </em>
107: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
108: <br>
109: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
110: <br>
111: If you've got a bug<br>
112: That you just can't shove<br>
113: Who ya gonna install?<br>
114: Bugbusters!<br>
115: <br>
116: Buffer overflow?<br>
117: Don't know where to go<br>
118: Who ya gonna install?<br>
119: Bugbusters!<br>
120: <br>
121: I ain't afraid of no holes<br>
122: I ain't afraid of no holes<br>
123: <br>
124: And you're off by one<br>
125: And it ain't no fun<br>
126: Who ya gonna install?<br>
127: Bugbusters!<br>
1.71 deraadt 128: <br>
1.126 deraadt 129: If your system's down<br>
130: And it makes you frown<br>
131: Who ya gonna install?<br>
132: Bugbusters!<br>
133: <br>
134: I ain't afraid of no holes<br>
135: I ain't afraid of no holes<br>
136: <br>
137: If you need a trace<br>
138: Gonna win that race<br>
139: Who ya gonna install?<br>
140: Bugbusters!<br>
141: <br>
142: If you got a crash<br>
143: And you got no cash<br>
144: Who ya gonna install?<br>
145: Bugbusters!<br>
146: <br>
147: OpenBSD makes me feel good!<br>
148: <br>
149: <br>
150: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
151: <img width=395 height=1210 src="images/51song.jpg"><br>
152: </td></tr></table>
153: <p>
154: <em>
155: Written and Arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and Vocals
156: by Ty Semaka (www.tysemaka.com). All instruments programmed by
157: Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
158: Moxam Studios (moxam@hotmail.com).
159: <br>
160: <br>
161: </em>
162:
163: <hr>
164: <a name=audio_extra51></a>
165: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
166: "Shut up and Hack"</a></font></h2>
167: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
168: <tr>
169: <td valign="top" width="30%">
170: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1.129 deraadt 171: This is an extra on
1.126 deraadt 172: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=2&CDA2%2b=Add">
173: "The Songs 4.1 - 5.1"</a> Audio CD.
174: <br>
175: <br>
176: 3:11 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songsh.mp3">(MP3 5.8MB)</a>
177: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songsh.ogg">(OGG 4.7MB)</a><br>
178: <br>
179: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio2-m.gif">
180: <br>
181: <br>
182: <em>
183: This is an <a href="#audio_extra51">extra track</a> by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
184: <p>
185: On a regular basis, the OpenBSD developers hold events called
186: <a href="hackathons.html">hackathons</a>. We've held many many
187: of them, all over the world. Sub-groups of developers sit
188: in one room and work fulltime for around a week.
189: <p>
190: One phrase in particular that has come up amongst developers,
191: to cut extra chit-chat to a minimum, is Shut up and Hack.
192: We've placed this phrase
193: on <a href="http://openbsd.org/images/hackathons/c2k2.gif">
194: hackathon tshirts</a> too; they were very popular with the guys.
195: <p>
196: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA2=1&CDA2%2b=Add">
197: Order this CDROM from our International site.</a>
198: <p>
199: The 2nd OpenBSD Audio CD "The Songs 4.1 - 5.1" celebrates the
200: artwork and songs that have been released with each OpenBSD release.
201: All the songs from the 4.1 to 5.1 releases are included (plus
202: two bonus tracks).
203: <p>
204: The audio CD package contains some stickers (which ones may vary).
205: </em>
206: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
207: <br>
208: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
209: Shut up and hack!<br>
210: In the hack room<br>
211: In the back room<br>
212: Wires everywhere<br>
213: <br>
214: At the tables<br>
215: Fingers able<br>
216: Take another dare!<br>
217: <br>
218: Close up your holes<br>
219: Pick up the slack!<br>
220: Get your head down!<br>
221: Shut up and hack!<br>
222: Close up your holes<br>
223: Pick up the slack!<br>
224: Get your head down!<br>
225: Shut up and hack!<br>
226: <br>
227: Coding faster<br>
228: You're the master<br>
229: of security<br>
230: <br>
231: In your t-shirts<br>
232: Hack till it hurts<br>
233: This is how to be free<br>
234: <br>
235: CHORUS<br>
236: <br>
237: Hit the pub now<br>
238: We're a club now<br>
239: Trading genius for free<br>
240: <br>
241: Have a laugh and<br>
242: Be a rock band<br>
243: This is how it should be!<br>
244: <br>
245: CHORUS<br>
246: <br>
247: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1.71 deraadt 248: <br>
249: </td></tr></table>
1.20 deraadt 250: <p>
1.104 deraadt 251:
252: <hr>
1.128 deraadt 253: <a name=audio_extra51b></a>
254: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
255: "Sonate aux insomniaques"</a></font></h2>
256: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1.129 deraadt 257: This is an extra on
1.128 deraadt 258: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=2&CDA2%2b=Add">
259: "The Songs 4.1 - 5.1"</a> Audio CD.
260: <br>
261: <br>
262: 4:03 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songsi.mp3">(MP3 5.9MB)</a>
263: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songsi.ogg">(OGG 5.7MB)</a><br>
264: <em>
265: <p>
266: This is an extra track by audio-subsystem developer Alexandre
267: Ratchov. It has no lyrics. The music is inspired by a poem with the
268: same title and was entirely recorded and mixed using OpenBSD.
269:
270: <p>
271: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA2=1&CDA2%2b=Add">
272: Order this CDROM from our International site.</a>
273: </em>
274: <br>
275: <p>
276:
277: <hr>
1.124 deraadt 278: <a name=50></a>
279: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="50.html">
280: 5.0: "What Me Worry?"</a></font></h2>
281: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
282: <tr>
283: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 284: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
285: <a href="50.html">OpenBSD 5.0</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.124 deraadt 286: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
287: <br>
1.126 deraadt 288: 3:03 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song50.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
1.124 deraadt 289: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song50.ogg">(OGG 4.0MB)</a><br>
290: <br>
291: <a href="images/MAD.jpg">
292: <img width=227 height=343 alt="MAD" src="images/MAD.jpg"></a>
293: <br>
294: <br>
295: <em>
296: Ty Semaka has been drawing<br>
297: Puffy-inspired parody artwork<br>
298: for us for many releases.<br>
299: This time I asked him to do some<br>
300: art that is a meta-parody:<br>
301: <br>
302: A Puffy-inspired parody of<br>
303: a parody magazine!<br>
304: <br>
305: </em>
306: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
307: <br>
308: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
309: <br>
310: What? Me Worry?<br>
311: Not with this stuff<br>
312: Nobody gettin' in<br>
313: Nobody get tough<br>
314: <br>
315: I'm a comic book kid<br>
316: Having fun in the woods<br>
317: Carving out toys<br>
318: and makin' em good<br>
319: <br>
320: Ya it's spy versus spy<br>
321: I got so many tricks<br>
322: I got undercover agents<br>
323: Even out in the sticks<br>
324: <br>
325: Threw a brick through your window<br>
326: Ya it's teenage fun<br>
327: Then I blew up a bridge<br>
328: And blocked out the sun<br>
1.125 sthen 329: <br>
1.124 deraadt 330: Little black flies<br>
331: on a pile of GNU<br>
332: With a Dairy Queen tip<br>
333: And Imma comin' for you<br>
334: <br>
1.125 sthen 335: Make fun of everybody<br>
1.124 deraadt 336: That's my thang<br>
337: Ya It's a geeks wet dream<br>
338: I give a poit! blit! spang!<br>
339: <br>
340: It's a mad mad world<br>
341: and number 5 is alive<br>
342: I gotta black submarine<br>
343: and I'm built to survive<br>
344: <br>
345: Threw a brick through your window<br>
346: Ya it's teenage fun<br>
347: Then I blew up a bridge<br>
348: And blocked out the sun<br>
349: <br>
350: Keep the source open<br>
351: Gonna get my kicks<br>
1.125 sthen 352: I'm 16 now<br>
1.124 deraadt 353: Ya I don't need mix<br>
354: <br>
355: Got a stack o magazines<br>
356: In my treehouse club<br>
357: Nobody gettin' up here<br>
358: Its secure ya bub<br>
359: <br>
360: Got a dime store bazooka<br>
361: And a bubble gum tank<br>
362: Got pots and pans for cookin' up<br>
363: some Open source stank<br>
364: <br>
365: Threw a brick through your window<br>
366: Ya it's teenage fun<br>
367: Then I blew up a bridge<br>
368: And blocked out the sun<br>
369: <br>
370: <br>
371: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
372: <img width=395 height=1210 src="images/50song.jpg"><br>
373: </td></tr></table>
374: <p>
375: <em>
376: Written and Arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and Vocals by
377: Ty Semaka (www.tysemaka.com). Percussion and fuzzy bass guitar by Jonathan
378: Lewis. Electric guitars by Tim Williams (www.cayusemusic.com). Recorded,
379: mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (moxam@hotmail.com).
380: <br>
381: <br>
382: </em>
383:
384: <hr>
1.123 deraadt 385: <a name=49></a>
386: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="49.html">
387: 4.9: "The Answer"</a></font></h2>
388: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
389: <tr>
390: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 391: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
392: <a href="49.html">OpenBSD 4.9</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.123 deraadt 393: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
394: <br>
1.126 deraadt 395: 3:43 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song49.mp3">(MP3 6.8MB)</a>
1.123 deraadt 396: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song49.ogg">(OGG 5.7MB)</a><br>
397: <br>
398: <a href="images/Hitchhiker.jpg">
399: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Hitchhiker" src="images/Hitchhiker.jpg"></a>
400: <br>
401: <br>
402: <em>
403: This release is OpenBSD 4.9. Then why is
404: the song about 4.2? Huh?<br>
405: <br>
406: The <a href="#44">OpenBSD 4.4 release artwork</a> honoured
407: the (Berkeley) CSRG guys for their efforts with the BSD 4.4
408: release -- they fought and managed to free the code.<br>
409: <br>
410: This release the artwork is based on the stories of Douglas Adams,
411: including his favorite number -- 42. Therefore we can remember
412: the previous major achievement of CSRG - BSD 4.2.<br>
413: <br>
414: BSD 4.2 was
415: not free, but it created and integrated so many new
416: technologies that we all depend on today. Take a moment
417: to consider how many things first available in BSD 4.2 you are using
418: at this moment, to read this page -- sockets, AF_INET,
419: virtual memory, etc.<br>
420: <br>
421: Today, new releases of operating systems from well-known vendors
422: contain less new features than BSD 4.2 did.<br>
423: <br>
424: If only we could stop slacking and make a release like that!
425: <br>
426: </em>
427: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
428: <br>
429: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
430: <br>
431: How many streams must a fish swim down<br>
432: before you can call him a man?<br>
433: And how many codes must a vendor lock down<br>
434: before silicon turns to sand?<br>
435: Yes and how many times must the lawyers fly<br>
436: before they are forever banned?<br>
437: <br>
438: The answer my friend<br>
439: BSD 4.2<br>
440: The answer<br>
441: BSD 4.2<br>
442: <br>
443: How many years can a planet exist<br>
444: before it is paved by the V?<br>
445: How many years can some source code exist<br>
446: before it's allowed to be free?<br>
447: Yes and how many times can a fish turn his head<br>
448: and pretend that he just doesn't see?<br>
449: <br>
450: The answer my friend<br>
451: BSD 4.2<br>
452: The answer<br>
453: BSD 4.2<br>
454: <br>
455: How many times must we fight for the right<br>
456: to share what is already ours?<br>
457: Yes and how many times must we hitch while we hike<br>
458: To end up not getting far?<br>
459: And how many fish must we shove in our ear<br>
460: before we can hear every star?<br>
461: <br>
462: The answer my friend<br>
463: BSD 4.2<br>
464: The answer<br>
465: BSD 4.2<br>
466: <br>
467: And now we can travel the galaxy<br>
468: with ships that are silicon made<br>
469: And now with a towel and a laptop in hand<br>
470: our future is made in the shade<br>
471: And what did we use to build on and on<br>
472: Inside everything that we use?<br>
473: <br>
474: The answer my friend<br>
475: BSD 4.2<br>
476: The answer<br>
477: BSD 4.2<br>
478: <br>
479: <br>
480: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
481: <img width=395 height=1210 src="images/49song.jpg"><br>
482: </td></tr></table>
483: <p>
484: <em>
485: Written and Arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and Vocals by Ty Semaka
486: (www.tysemaka.com). Guitar and harmonica by Leslie Alexander
487: (www.lesliealexander.com). Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan
488: Lewis of Moxam Studios (moxam@hotmail.com).
489: <br>
490: <br>
491: </em>
492:
493: <hr>
1.120 deraadt 494: <a name=48></a>
495: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="48.html">
496: 4.8: "El Puffiachi"<br>
497: </a></font></h2>
498: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
499: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 500: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 501: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
502: <a href="48.html">OpenBSD 4.8</a> CD2 track 2 is<br>
1.120 deraadt 503: an uncompressed copy of<br>
504: this song.<br>
505: <br>
506: [Instrumental]<br>
507: <br>
1.126 deraadt 508: 2:39 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song48.mp3">(MP3 4.4MB)</a>
1.120 deraadt 509: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song48.ogg">(OGG 3.0MB)</a><br>
510: <br>
511: <a href="images/ElPuffiachi.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 512: <img width=227 height=343 alt="ElPuffiachi" src="images/ElPuffiachi.jpg"></a>
1.120 deraadt 513: <br>
514: <br>
515: <em>
516: [Sorry, no commentary]
517: <br>
518: </em>
519: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
520: <br>
521: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
522: <br>
523: <br>
524: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
525: <img width=936 height=720 src="images/48song.jpg"><br>
526: </td></tr></table>
527: <p>
528: <em>
529: Written and performed by Manuel Jara and Mauricio Moreno of 'Los Morenos'.
530: <br>
531: <br>
532: </em>
533:
534: <hr>
1.119 deraadt 535: <a name=47></a>
536: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="47.html">
537: 4.7: "I'm still here"</a></font></h2>
538: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
539: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 540: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 541: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
542: <a href="47.html">OpenBSD 4.7</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.119 deraadt 543: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
544: <br>
1.126 deraadt 545: 4:39 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song47.mp3">(MP3 8.5MB)</a>
1.119 deraadt 546: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song47.ogg">(OGG 6.3MB)</a><br>
547: <br>
548: <a href="images/Superfish.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 549: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Superfish" src="images/Superfish.jpg"></a>
1.119 deraadt 550: <br>
551: <br>
552: <em>
553: [Sorry, no commentary]
554: <br>
555: </em>
556: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
557: <br>
558: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
559: <br>
560: Back when I was twenty<br>
561: They said I wouldn't last<br>
562: All that I believed in<br>
563: Were the teachings of the past<br>
564: <br>
565: All I ever wanted<br>
566: Was to keep the world secure<br>
567: And all the criticizing<br>
568: Was something I'd endure<br>
569: <br>
570: The changes that I've been through<br>
571: And the trials along the way<br>
572: The battle isn't over<br>
573: And I'm living day by day<br>
574: <br>
575: But I'm still here<br>
576: <br>
577: Some say that I'm a hero<br>
578: But I'm just being me<br>
579: With my filter I can hide<br>
580: My true identity<br>
581: <br>
582: One day when I was flying<br>
583: Across the open skies<br>
584: I saw the bridge to freedom<br>
585: Had been weakened over time<br>
586: <br>
587: The server room was burning up<br>
588: And melting the array<br>
589: A little breath of cold air<br>
590: Was enough to save the day<br>
591: <br>
592: CHORUS:<br>
593: But I'm still here<br>
594: Better than I've ever been before<br>
595: I'm still free<br>
596: Close a window, open up a door<br>
597: I'm still me<br>
598: <br>
599: INSTRUMENTAL<br>
600: <br>
601: Now that I am older<br>
602: And I've been around so long<br>
603: The world is ever changing<br>
604: I'm still righting all the wrong<br>
605: <br>
606: CHORUS:<br>
607: <br>
608: <br>
609: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
610: <img width=395 height=1500 src="images/47song.jpg"><br>
611: </td></tr></table>
612: <p>
613: <em>
614: Written, arranged, and sung by Bob Kitella. Guitar by Tim Campbell.
615: Keyboard by Bob Kitella and Jonathan D. Lewis. Bass, additional programming,
616: mixing, and mastering by Jonathan D. Lewis.
617: <br>
618: <br>
619: </em>
620:
621: <hr>
1.116 deraadt 622: <a name=46></a>
623: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="46.html">
624: 4.6: "Planet of the Users"</a></font></h2>
625: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
626: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 627: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 628: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
629: <a href="46.html">OpenBSD 4.6</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.116 deraadt 630: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
631: <br>
1.126 deraadt 632: 2:38 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song46.mp3">(MP3 4.8MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 633: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song46.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
1.116 deraadt 634: <br>
635: <a href="images/PlanetUsers.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 636: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PlanetUsers" src="images/PlanetUsers.jpg"></a>
1.116 deraadt 637: <br>
638: <br>
639: <em>
1.119 deraadt 640: [Sorry, no commentary]
1.116 deraadt 641: <br>
642: </em>
643: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
644: <br>
645: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
646: <br>
647: Welcome to the future<br>
648: One very rich man<br>
649: runs the Earth with<br>
650: one multinational<br>
651: owns your stuff<br>
652: and owns your birth<br>
653: <br>
654: Everyone is armless<br>
655: Personal robots<br>
656: Do it all for you<br>
657: Sitting on your slug head<br>
658: One channel TV<br>
659: never gonna bore you<br>
660: <br>
661: CHORUS<br>
662: Does it sound like a paradise<br>
663: or a way to die<br>
664: while alive and a loser<br>
665: I'm a man from the open past<br>
1.117 damien 666: And I'll never last<br>
1.116 deraadt 667: on the Planet of the Users<br>
668: <br>
669: Everyone is happy<br>
670: No more government<br>
671: No more media<br>
672: Only the Company<br>
673: Entertains you<br>
674: while it feeds you<br>
675: <br>
676: Soylent Green pap<br>
677: Eating your friends while<br>
678: shopping, buying<br>
679: Stupid applications<br>
680: Obsolete before you try them<br>
681: <br>
682: CHORUS<br>
683: <br>
684: Take me back<br>
685: Take me back<br>
686: Please<br>
687: Take me back<br>
688: <br>
689: Way back in my time<br>
690: Open source kept<br>
691: everyone choosing<br>
692: People knew the insides<br>
693: Of devices they were using<br>
694: <br>
695: Hackers had a doorway<br>
696: Now it's locked and<br>
697: dumbed down so much<br>
698: One button coma<br>
699: Stop the future truly outta touch<br>
700: <br>
701: CHORUS<br>
702: <br>
703: <br>
704: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
705: <img width=395 height=1778 src="images/46song.jpg"><br>
706: </td></tr></table>
707: <p>
708: <em>
709: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
710: Vocals by Duncan McDonald, bass guitar by Jonathan Lewis, guitars by
711: Russ Broom, drums by John McNeil.
712: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
713: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
714: <br>
715: <br>
716: </em>
717:
718: <hr>
1.108 deraadt 719: <a name=45></a>
720: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="45.html">
721: 4.5: "Games"</a></font></h2>
722: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
723: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 724: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 725: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
726: <a href="45.html">OpenBSD 4.5</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.108 deraadt 727: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
728: <br>
1.126 deraadt 729: 3:29 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song45.mp3">(MP3 6.4MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 730: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song45.ogg">(OGG 4.5MB)</a><br>
1.108 deraadt 731: <br>
732: <a href="images/Pufftron.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 733: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufftron" src="images/Pufftron.jpg"></a>
1.108 deraadt 734: <br>
735: <br>
736: <em>
1.119 deraadt 737: [Sorry, no commentary]
1.108 deraadt 738: <br>
739: </em>
740: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
741: <br>
742: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
743: <br>
744: I love to hate my PC<br>
745: But now it's not so easy<br>
746: Just wanna get this job done<br>
747: But these A.M.L. games are dumb<br>
748: <br>
749: You wanna know the truth?<br>
750: Intel's controlling you<br>
751: And Microsoft is too<br>
752: But this is nothing new<br>
753: <br>
754: With A.C.P.I.<br>
755: This endless mess so corporate<br>
756: Tangles and angles<br>
757: In what could be straight forward<br>
758: <br>
759: Lost connections<br>
760: Lost my mind<br>
761: It's such a waste of time<br>
762: <br>
763: CHORUS<br>
764: <br>
765: Now on the motherboard<br>
766: Where all my life is stored<br>
767: Playing with garbage there<br>
768: With rules so unfair<br>
769: <br>
770: Ruled by A.C.P.I.<br>
1.109 deraadt 771: Whose heart is so corrupted<br>
1.108 deraadt 772: Forcing us all to play<br>
773: Our progress interrupted<br>
774: <br>
775: Lost connections<br>
776: Lost my mind<br>
777: It's such a waste of time<br>
778: <br>
779: CHORUS<br>
780: <br>
781: Yes I'm a user<br>
782: And I'm not the only one<br>
783: I'm not a loser<br>
784: With help from Puffy Tron<br>
785: <br>
786: And we will find it<br>
787: The pin in all this heartache<br>
788: Map our devices<br>
789: And we know what it'll take<br>
790: <br>
791: Lost connections<br>
792: Lost my mind<br>
793: Oh Ooh Woah end of line<br>
794: <br>
795: (bridge)<br>
796: On and on<br>
797: Can we all be wrong?<br>
798: All and all<br>
799: We are one<br>
800: Clean the dream<br>
801: Gone wrong<br>
802: We are Tron<br>
803: On and on and on<br>
804: <br>
805: Instrumental CHORUS (guitar solo)<br>
806: <br>
807: Instrumental pre-chorus<br>
808: <br>
809: CHORUS<br>
810: dumb dumb dumb<br>
811: <br>
812: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
813: <img width=395 height=1778 src="images/45song.jpg"><br>
814: </td></tr></table>
815: <p>
816: <em>
817: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
818: Theo de Raadt. Synth, drum and bass programming by Jonathan Lewis,
819: guitar by Russ Broom, vocals by Jonny Sinclair.
1.112 deraadt 820: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
821: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.108 deraadt 822: <br>
823: <br>
824: </em>
825:
826: <hr>
1.104 deraadt 827: <a name=44></a>
828: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="44.html">
829: 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a></font></h2>
830: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
831: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 832: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 833: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
834: <a href="44.html">OpenBSD 4.4</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.104 deraadt 835: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
836: <br>
1.126 deraadt 837: 3:05 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song44.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 838: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song44.ogg">(OGG 4.4MB)</a><br>
1.104 deraadt 839: <br>
840: <a href="images/SourceWars.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 841: <img width=227 height=343 alt="SourceWars" src="images/SourceWars.jpg"></a>
1.104 deraadt 842: <br>
843: <br>
844: <em>
845: Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of
846: the Berkeley Unix distributions for the
1.121 deraadt 847: O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution".
1.104 deraadt 848: We recommend you read his story, entitled
849: <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html">
850: "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
851: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable"</a>
852: first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here.
853: Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has
854: probably not been read by enough people.
855: <br>
856: <br>
857: The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were
858: not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear.
859: But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase
860: of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting
861: than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which
862: hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period.
863: But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so
864: much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had
865: lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid?
866: <br>
867: <br>
868: After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had
869: already been replaced by university researchers and their associates.
870: So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group)
871: started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest.
872: Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX
873: conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these
874: rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by
875: piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs.
876: Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like
877: Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more.
878: <br>
879: <br>
1.105 deraadt 880: Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit more careful
1.104 deraadt 881: checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which
882: was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source
883: code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice).
884: <br>
885: <br>
886: Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system
887: based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories
888: (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB.
889: Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the
890: lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments
891: (and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite.
892: Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for
893: a lot less than <a href=orders.html>$1000 per copy</a>).
894: <br>
895: <br>
896: The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick,
897: and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.
898: <br>
899: </em>
900: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
901: <br>
902: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
903: <br>
904: <center>
905: <br>
906: Source Wars<br>
907: Episode IV<br>
908: Trial of the BSD Knights<br>
909: </center>
910: <br>
911: Not so very long ago<br>
912: and not so far away<br>
913: AT&T made system code<br>
914: and gave some bits away<br>
915: <br>
916: Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it<br>
917: better, faster, more diverse<br>
918: This open thing was wonderful<br>
919: for everyone on Earth<br>
920: <br>
921: And then the roaring 90's came<br>
922: The Empire changed its mind<br>
923: And good old greed was back again<br>
924: The geeks were in a legal bind<br>
925: <br>
926: The Empire's Unix Lab<br>
927: sued BSDi from above<br>
928: The code is free but<br>
929: only we can sell it bub!<br>
930: <br>
931: The University came calling<br>
932: in full protective mode<br>
1.106 deraadt 933: and proved the source in Net/2<br>
1.104 deraadt 934: didn't use the Empire's code<br>
935: <br>
936: Then Bostic brought the Empire's books<br>
937: n' slammed them dandys down<br>
938: And showed the giant chunks<br>
939: of BSD code all around<br>
940: <br>
941: They didn't even give an ounce<br>
942: of credit front to back<br>
943: This broke the license USL<br>
944: was using to attack<br>
945: <br>
946: The case was thrown out by the judge<br>
947: and "settled" out of court<br>
948: And UCB was big enough<br>
949: to take it like a sport<br>
950: <br>
951: And to this day the geekfolk say<br>
952: Now did we win or lose?<br>
953: They shoulda made 'em reprint<br>
954: every book with proper dues<br>
955: <br>
956: And take out ads in major rags<br>
957: apologetically<br>
958: And maybe now it wouldn't be<br>
959: the same monopoly<br>
960: <br>
961: The Empire might have tumbled<br>
962: down if everybody saw<br>
963: How greed became so big<br>
964: they couldn't see that glaring flaw<br>
965: <br>
966: But only one community<br>
967: the one that makes it tick<br>
968: Is there to fight for everyone<br>
969: exposing hypocrites<br>
970: <br>
971: And OpenBSD is here<br>
972: to tell the story right<br>
973: Once again the fight is fought<br>
974: and kept in shining light<br>
975: <br>
976: And may the source be with you<br>
977: May the Empire fall apart<br>
978: Ya like that's gonna happen!<br>
979: But we gotta keep heart!<br>
980: <br>
981: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
982: <img width=395 height=1800 src="images/44song.jpg"><br>
983: </td></tr></table>
984: <p>
985: <em>
986: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka.
987: Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey.
988: Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 989: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
990: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.104 deraadt 991: <br>
992: <br>
993: </em>
1.20 deraadt 994:
995: <hr>
1.95 deraadt 996: <a name=43></a>
997: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="43.html">
998: 4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"</a></font></h2>
999: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1000: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1001: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 1002: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1003: <a href="43.html">OpenBSD 4.3</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.95 deraadt 1004: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1005: <br>
1.126 deraadt 1006: 4:48 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song43.mp3">(MP3 8.2MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 1007: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song43.ogg">(OGG 6.5MB)</a><br>
1.95 deraadt 1008: <br>
1009: <a href="images/Cryptonaut.jpg">
1010: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Cryptonaut" src="images/Cryptonaut.jpg"></a>
1011: <br>
1012: <br>
1013: <em>
1014: We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man
1015: who is a lot like
1016: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/">Naomi Campbell</a>.
1017: <br>
1018: <br>
1019: In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at
1.102 deraadt 1020: Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans
1021: (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from
1022: his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted
1.95 deraadt 1023: to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from
1024: the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue
1.96 deraadt 1025: and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto
1.95 deraadt 1026: the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane.
1027: After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed
1028: onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few
1029: OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby,
1030: so we have an accurate story of the events.
1031: <br>
1032: <br>
1033: This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us
1034: about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes
1035: it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he
1036: has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone.
1037: He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him
1038: alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
1039: <br>
1040: <br>
1041: We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We
1042: remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a
1043: requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of
1044: free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's
1045: in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful
1046: influence which he could use so falsely.
1047: <br>
1048: <br>
1049: We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our "ports" tree
1050: builds software that is 'found on the net' into packages that
1051: OpenBSD users can use more easily. A scaffold of Makefiles and
1052: scripts automatically fetch these pieces of software, apply
1053: patches as required by OpenBSD, and then build them into nice
1054: neat little tarballs. This is provided as a convenience for
1.97 okan 1055: users. The ports tree is maintained by OpenBSD entirely separately
1.95 deraadt 1056: from our main source tree. Some of the software which is fetched
1057: and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.
1058: All the other operating system projects make exactly the same
1059: decision, and provide these same conveniences to their users.
1060: <br>
1061: <br>
1062: Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free.
1063: He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically, yet
1064: he said nothing to the many other vendors who do the same; many of
1065: them donate to the FSF and perhaps that has something to do with it.
1066: Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official
1067: GNU software -- including Emacs -- compiles and runs on Windows.
1068: <br>
1069: <br>
1070: That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some
1071: people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not
1072: follow their own stupid rules.
1073: </em>
1074: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1075: <br>
1076: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1077: <br>
1078:
1079: <br>
1080: Puffy and the mighty Cryptonauts<br>
1081: Trading with new lands by open C<br>
1082: Corporate monsters, many closing passages<br>
1083: Tempting harpies<br>
1084: 13 years of treachery<br>
1085: <br>
1086: <br>
1087: Journey's over, welcome home the heroes<br>
1088: Offering the bounty of their trade<br>
1089: Useful clothing spun from the golden fleece<br>
1090: For the people, free and very strongly made<br>
1091: <br>
1092: <br>
1093: But something's wrong with them<br>
1094: They will not take our free wares<br>
1095: "What's the matter good people?<br>
1.99 deraadt 1096: Why are you so scared?<br>
1097: Why?"<br>
1.95 deraadt 1098: <br>
1099: <br>
1100: Then one brave soul spoke out<br>
1101: "We're not allowed to take your gifts<br>
1.98 okan 1102: Hypocrites has spoken<br>
1.95 deraadt 1103: There are many new laws"<br>
1104: <br>
1105: <br>
1.98 okan 1106: Hypocrites appears<br>
1.95 deraadt 1107: "Puffy!<br>
1108: You must obey my new rules!"<br>
1109: <br>
1110: <br>
1111: "First rule one dictates<br>
1112: You cannot give your code away"<br>
1113: <br>
1114: <br>
1115: (In Greek) To your health, Nick, great bouzouki player and cool dude.<br>
1116: <br>
1117: <br>
1118: "And rule two dictates<br>
1119: You must give it to me<br>
1120: So I can give it away properly for free"<br>
1121: <br>
1122: <br>
1123: "The list goes on of course<br>
1124: But for traders this is all you need"<br>
1125: <br>
1126: <br>
1127: "This is madness!<br>
1128: He has lost his mind!<br>
1129: This defies the first law of free trade<br>
1130: Rule zero came before this rule one<br>
1131: Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone"<br>
1132: <br>
1133: <br>
1134: Then Hypocrites goes mad.<br>
1135: <br>
1136: <br>
1137: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1138: <img width=395 height=1720 src="images/43song.gif"><br>
1139: </td></tr></table>
1140: <p>
1141: <em>
1142: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
1143: Nikkos Diochnos. Vocals and bouzouki by Nikkos Diochnos. Baglama,
1144: second bouzouki, violin, bass, and drum programming by Stelios Pulos,
1.101 naddy 1145: né Jonathan Lewis. Guitar by Methodios Valtiotis, né Allen Baekeland.
1146: Percussion by Pentelis Yiannikopulos, né Ben Johnson. Recorded, mixed,
1.112 deraadt 1147: and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1148: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.95 deraadt 1149: <br>
1150: <br>
1151: </em>
1152:
1153: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 1154: <a name=42></a>
1155: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="42.html">
1156: 4.2: "100001 1010101"</a></font></h2>
1157: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1158: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1159: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 1160: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1161: <a href="42.html">OpenBSD 4.2</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.90 deraadt 1162: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1163: <br>
1.126 deraadt 1164: 4:40 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song42.mp3">(MP3 4.0MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 1165: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song42.ogg">(OGG 6.4MB)</a><br>
1.90 deraadt 1166: <br>
1167: <a href="images/Marathon.jpg">
1168: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Marathon" src="images/Marathon.jpg"></a>
1169: <br>
1170: <br>
1171: <em>
1172: Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do.
1.91 merdely 1173: This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have
1.90 deraadt 1174: remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software,
1175: that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share
1176: these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open
1177: Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one
1178: would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't
1179: seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects
1180: away from the ideals very quickly.
1181: <p>
1.93 jmc 1182: Much of any operating system's usability depends on device support,
1.91 merdely 1183: and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices
1.90 deraadt 1184: available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project
1185: could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or
1186: including binary objects in the operating system for which no source
1187: code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden
1188: inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset
1189: of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about
1190: getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.
1191: <p>
1192: Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals,
1193: we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues,
1.91 merdely 1194: resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much
1.90 deraadt 1195: recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also
1196: led to other issues.
1197: <p>
1198: We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used
1199: by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often
1200: than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still
1201: properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the
1202: same spirit that they were given in the first place.
1203: <p>
1204: That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our
1205: stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal;
1206: we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more
1207: from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux
1208: projects.
1209: <p>
1210: Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all
1211: codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants
1212: of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the
1213: SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source
1214: into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off
1215: as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution
1216: -- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who
1217: have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself,
1218: not for their agenda.
1219: <p>
1220: The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do
1221: what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We
1222: don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our
1223: image. We are here to have fun doing right.
1224: <p>
1225: </em>
1226: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1227: <br>
1228: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1229: <br>
1230: The starting line is nervous<br>
1231: we burst upon the course<br>
1232: Electric is our passion<br>
1233: An open hearted force<br>
1234: <br>
1235: The water's full of dangers<br>
1236: That interrupt the flow<br>
1237: And soon the spirit splinters<br>
1.92 deraadt 1238: as temptation takes its toll<br>
1.90 deraadt 1239: <br>
1240: *Give and get back some<br>
1241: Sharing it all<br>
1242: Path we know best<br>
1243: we're having a ball<br>
1244: Opulent mission<br>
1245: Lost in our passion<br>
1246: You can still choose<br>
1247: If you don't swim to win<br>
1248: you'll never lose*<br>
1249: <br>
1250: One Zero Zero Zero Zero One<br>
1251: <br>
1252: The window is a wall by now<br>
1253: A sieve of sickened holes<br>
1254: The water chicken stealing maps<br>
1255: Mistaking us for foes<br>
1256: <br>
1257: The sun a son of Icarus<br>
1258: Flies too close to itself<br>
1259: Forbidden fruit is blinded<br>
1260: by the toys upon the shelf<br>
1261: <br>
1262: *CHORUS*<br>
1263: <br>
1264: One Zero One Zero One Zero One<br>
1265: <br>
1266: Slow and steady wins they say<br>
1267: but this is not a race<br>
1268: It's not about who takes a prize<br>
1269: for first or second place<br>
1270: <br>
1271: Imaginary rings of brass<br>
1272: Were traded for real goals<br>
1273: The vision and the mission lost<br>
1274: For those with corporate souls<br>
1275: <br>
1276: *Give and get back some<br>
1277: Sharing it all<br>
1278: Path we know best<br>
1279: we're having a ball<br>
1280: Give and get zeros<br>
1281: Give and get ones<br>
1282: Given to you but<br>
1283: Not you to us<br>
1284: Opulent mission<br>
1285: Lost in our passion<br>
1286: You can still choose<br>
1287: If you don't swim to win<br>
1288: you'll never lose<br>
1289: You'll never lose*<br>
1290: <br>
1291: <br>
1292: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1293: <img width=396 height=1876 src="images/42song.gif"><br>
1294: </td></tr></table>
1295: <p>
1296: <em>
1297: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed and
1.112 deraadt 1298: mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1299: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.90 deraadt 1300: Vocals by Duncan McDonnald (www.thegreatgavalan.com). Drums by
1301: John McNeil. Guitar by Jeff Drummond. Bass and keyboards by
1302: Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and Theo de Raadt.
1303: <br>
1304: <br>
1305: </em>
1306:
1307: <hr>
1.81 deraadt 1308: <a name=41></a>
1309: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
1310: 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
1311: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1312: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1313: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 1314: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1315: <a href="41.html">OpenBSD 4.1</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.81 deraadt 1316: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1317: <br>
1.126 deraadt 1318: 4:19 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 1319: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
1.81 deraadt 1320: <br>
1321: <a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
1322: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
1323: <br>
1324: <br>
1325: <em>
1326: As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
1327: is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
1328: useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
1329: hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
1330: that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
1331: device support.
1332: <p>
1.85 mbalmer 1333: Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
1.81 deraadt 1334: all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
1335: interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
1336: mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
1337: time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
1338: challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
1339: of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
1340: weird, or even buggy.
1341: <p>
1342: When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
1343: become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
1344: for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
1345: the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
1346: these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
1347: from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
1.84 matthieu 1348: documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
1.81 deraadt 1349: actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
1350: OpenBSD, either).
1351: <p>
1352: When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
1353: our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
1354: and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
1355: unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
1356: 20 years building
1.83 wvdputte 1357: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
1.81 deraadt 1358: political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
1359: <p>
1.82 jsg 1360: A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
1.87 tom 1361: some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
1.81 deraadt 1362: of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
1363: into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
1364: communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
1365: requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
1366: work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
1367: would be fantastic by now.
1368: <p>
1369: We only ask that
1.83 wvdputte 1370: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
1.81 deraadt 1371: users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
1372: </em>
1373: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1374: <br>
1375: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1376: <br>
1377: Here's an old story ...<br>
1378: <br>
1379: <br>
1380: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
1381: We all know the details<br>
1382: Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
1383: some serious loot,<br>
1384: and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
1385: Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
1386: The little guy who<br>
1387: did the best with what he had<br>
1388: <br>
1389: <br>
1390: Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
1391: Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
1392: in moderation<br>
1393: Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
1394: <br>
1395: <br>
1396: If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
1397: never give him the password<br>
1398: If he goes penguin on you,<br>
1399: stop - being - his brother.<br>
1400: When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
1.86 tom 1401: A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
1.81 deraadt 1402: So do the best with what you have<br>
1403: <br>
1404: <br>
1405: Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
1406: that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
1407: But unlike Vendors,<br>
1408: he at least keeps the door open<br>
1409: <br>
1410: <br>
1411: Vendors of water that should be free<br>
1412: Look upon their words and despair<br>
1413: Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
1414: then made him better off dead<br>
1415: Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
1416: <br>
1417: <br>
1418: Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
1419: The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
1420: and left us with open source (sores)<br>
1421: sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
1422: for each consecutive cut<br>
1423: But with the salty water of labour<br>
1424: parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
1425: <br>
1426: <br>
1427: It's not whether you're well off<br>
1428: it's where you dig the well<br>
1429: The best the little guy can do is what<br>
1430: the little guy does right<br>
1431: <br>
1432: <br>
1433: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1434: <img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
1435: </td></tr></table>
1436: <p>
1437: <em>
1.112 deraadt 1438: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1439: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1440: Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
1.81 deraadt 1441: <br>
1442: <br>
1443: </em>
1444:
1445: <hr>
1.126 deraadt 1446: <a name=audio_extra40></a>
1.76 deraadt 1447: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
1448: "OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
1449: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1450: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1451: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 1452: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1453: This is the extra song on the
1454: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1%2b=Add">
1455: "The Songs 3.0 - 4.0"</a> Audio CD.
1456: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1457: <br>
1.126 deraadt 1458: 4:00 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 1459: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.76 deraadt 1460: <br>
1461: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
1462: <br>
1463: <br>
1464: <em>
1.126 deraadt 1465: This is an extra track by the artist Ty Semaka
1466: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the "The Songs 3.0 - 4.0" audio CD.
1.76 deraadt 1467: <p>
1468: This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
1469: and music for each OpenBSD release.
1470: Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
1471: going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
1.111 deraadt 1472: <p>
1.126 deraadt 1473: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1%2b=Add">
1.111 deraadt 1474: Order this CDROM from our International site.</a>
1475: <p>
1.126 deraadt 1476: The 1st OpenBSD Audio CD "The Songs 3.0 - 4.0" celebrates the artwork
1477: and songs that have been released with each OpenBSD release. All the
1478: songs from the 3.0 to 4.0 releases are included (plus this bonus track).
1.111 deraadt 1479: <p>
1.126 deraadt 1480: Includes an 11cm silver-on-clear die-cut wireframe Puffy sticker!
1.76 deraadt 1481: </em>
1482: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1483: <br>
1484: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1485: Be Open<br>
1486: Be Vocal<br>
1487: Stay Open<br>
1488: Stay Vocal<br>
1489: <br>
1490: (repeat)<br>
1491: <br>
1492: OpenBSD<br>
1493: <br>
1494: Twice a year,<br>
1495: me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
1496: at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
1497: and take strips out of liars.<br>
1498: He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
1499: He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
1500: button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
1.78 deraadt 1501: on the systematicalifornication<br>
1.76 deraadt 1502: and a license application<br>
1503: is a fishybomination<br>
1504: and a random allocation<br>
1505: got a copywritten melanoma<br>
1506: sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
1507: OK stop.<br>
1508: I get it.<br>
1509: Some asshole lied.<br>
1510: <br>
1511: And then he says,<br>
1.78 deraadt 1512: "The crashorama villaination<br>
1.76 deraadt 1513: lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
1514: the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
1515: in the cyber cider documation<br>
1516: universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
1517: cohabitationizizingation"<br>
1518: OK stop.<br>
1519: I get it.<br>
1520: <a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
1521: Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
1522: but he was only open for business.<br></a>
1523: I get it.<br>
1524: Where's my pencils?<br>
1525: Bring me my mic!<br>
1526: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1527: Be Open<br>
1528: Be Vocal<br>
1529: Stay Open<br>
1530: Stay Vocal<br>
1531: <br>
1532: (repeat)<br>
1533: <br>
1534: Then he has another beer and<br>
1535: gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
1536: Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
1537: And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
1538: the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
1539: where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
1540: a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
1541: and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
1542: or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
1543: and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
1544: And squeeze in five concepts<br>
1545: every time, every song!<br>
1546: And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
1547: if I draw the device wrong!<br>
1548: "It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
1549: And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
1550: cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
1551: <br>
1552: (beat boxin')<br>
1553: <br>
1554: <br>
1555: </td></tr></table>
1556: <p>
1557: <em>
1558: <br>
1559: </em>
1560:
1561: <hr>
1562: <a name=40></a>
1563: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
1564: 4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
1565: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1566: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1567: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 1568: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1569: <a href="40.html">OpenBSD 4.0</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.76 deraadt 1570: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1571: <br>
1.126 deraadt 1572: 2:40 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 1573: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
1.76 deraadt 1574: <br>
1575: <a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
1576: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
1577: <br>
1578: <br>
1579: <em>
1580: The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
1.77 deraadt 1581: resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
1.76 deraadt 1582: servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
1.77 deraadt 1583: sells to continue our development goals.
1.76 deraadt 1584: <br>
1585: <br>
1586: While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
1.77 deraadt 1587: around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
1588: or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
1.76 deraadt 1589: the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
1590: approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
1591: the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
1592: write and record a song that also matches the theme.
1593: <br>
1594: <br>
1595: Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
1596: so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
1597: <br>
1598: <br>
1599: This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
1600: try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
1601: instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
1602: write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
1603: that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
1.77 deraadt 1604: <br>
1605: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1606: OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
1607: with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
1.77 deraadt 1608: of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
1609: songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
1610: under such duress that much of our code gets written.
1.76 deraadt 1611: <br>
1612: <br>
1613: We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
1614: Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
1615: returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
1616: other developers.
1617: </em>
1618: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1619: <br>
1620: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1621: <br>
1622: <br>
1623: <br>
1624: Humppa negala<br>
1625: Humppa negala<br>
1626: Humppa negala<br>
1627: Venismechah<br>
1628: <br>
1629: Humppa negala<br>
1630: Humppa negala<br>
1631: Humppa negala<br>
1632: Venismechah<br>
1633: <br>
1634: Humppa neranenah<br>
1635: Humppa neranenah<br>
1636: Humppa neranenah<br>
1637: Venismechah<br>
1638: <br>
1639: Humppa neranenah<br>
1640: Humppa neranenah<br>
1641: Humppa neranenah<br>
1642: Venismechah<br>
1643: <br>
1644: Uru, uru achim!<br>
1645: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1646: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1647: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1648: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1649: uru achim!<br>
1650: uru achim!<br>
1651: OpenBSD!<br>
1652: <br>
1653: <br>
1654: (circus torture)<br>
1655: <br>
1656: <br>
1657: Humppa negala<br>
1658: Humppa negala<br>
1659: Humppa negala<br>
1660: Venismechah<br>
1661: <br>
1662: Humppa negala<br>
1663: Humppa negala<br>
1664: Humppa negala<br>
1665: Venismechah<br>
1666: <br>
1667: Humppa neranenah<br>
1668: Humppa neranenah<br>
1669: Humppa neranenah<br>
1670: Venismechah<br>
1671: <br>
1672: Humppa neranenah<br>
1673: Humppa neranenah<br>
1674: Humppa neranenah<br>
1675: Venismechah<br>
1676: <br>
1677: Uru, uru achim!<br>
1678: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1679: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1680: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1681: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1682: uru achim!<br>
1683: uru achim!<br>
1684: OpenBSD!<br>
1685: <br>
1686: <br>
1687: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1688: <img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
1689: </td></tr></table>
1690: <p>
1691: <em>
1.90 deraadt 1692: Based on the traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
1.76 deraadt 1693: Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
1.112 deraadt 1694: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1695: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1696: Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
1.94 tobias 1697: Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.76 deraadt 1698: <br>
1699: <br>
1700: </em>
1701:
1702: <hr>
1.63 deraadt 1703: <a name=39></a>
1.64 jolan 1704: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
1.63 deraadt 1705: 3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
1706: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1707: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1708: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 1709: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1710: <a href="39.html">OpenBSD 3.9</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.63 deraadt 1711: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1712: <br>
1.126 deraadt 1713: 4:00 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 1714: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.63 deraadt 1715: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1716: <a href="images/Blob.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 1717: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
1.63 deraadt 1718: <br>
1719: <br>
1720: <em>
1721: OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
1722: is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
1723: without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
1724: obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
1725: and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
1726: for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
1727: <br>
1728: <br>
1729: Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
1730: cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
1731: <br>
1732: <br>
1733: But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
1734: quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
1735: no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
1736: can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
1737: <br>
1738: <br>
1739: <ul>
1740: <li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
1741: at any time.<br>
1742: <br>
1743: <li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
1744: <br>
1745: <li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
1746: <br>
1747: <li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
1748: <br>
1749: <li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
1750: <br>
1751: <li>
1752: Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
1753: less portable.<br>
1754: <br>
1755: <li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
1756: </ul>
1757: <br>
1758: <br>
1759: This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
1760: source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
1761: new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
1762: vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
1763: the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
1764: assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
1765: </em>
1766: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1767: <br>
1768: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1769: <br><br><br>
1770: Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
1771: when we found him on the beach,<br>
1772: there was nothin' shady<br>
1773: you could bounce him on your knee<br>
1774: like a ba-ba-ball<br>
1775: and his first little word was adorable<br>
1776: <br>
1777: He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1778: blah blah blah<br>
1779: Blah!<br>
1780: <br>
1781: <br>
1782: Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
1783: But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
1784: <br>
1785: <br>
1786: Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
1787: He could get your motor runnin'<br>
1788: with a drop of goo<br>
1789: He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
1790: But by the time he graduated<br>
1791: Blob was business slime!<br>
1792: <br>
1793: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1794: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1795: blah blah<br>
1796: <br>
1797: <br>
1798: He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
1799: <br>
1800: <br>
1801: Now everybody had it<br>
1802: they was drivin' around<br>
1803: They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
1804: for convenience now<br>
1805: Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
1806: And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
1807: <br>
1808: <br>
1809: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1810: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1811: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1812: blah blah<br>
1813: <br>
1814: <br>
1815: It's linkin' time!<br>
1816: <br>
1817: <br>
1818: Now it was out of control<br>
1819: n' fishy's came to depend<br>
1820: on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
1821: Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
1822: Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
1823: <br>
1824: <br>
1825: He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1826: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1827: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1828: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1829: B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
1830: <br>
1831: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1832: Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
1.63 deraadt 1833: And he battled the Blob<br>
1834: who had crossed the line<br>
1835: He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
1836: I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
1837: <br>
1838: <br>
1839: But it was too late!<br>
1840: Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
1841: He wants your video!<br>
1842: Ya he wants your net!<br>
1843: He wants your drive!<br>
1844: He wants it all!!<br>
1845: <br>
1846: <br>
1847: Somebody help us!<br>
1848: Noooooooo!<br>
1849: NVIDIA!<br>
1850: Intel!<br>
1851: Atheros!<br>
1852: 3-Ware!<br>
1853: VIA!<br>
1854: ATI!<br>
1855: Broadcom!<br>
1856: TI!<br>
1857: Myricom!<br>
1858: HighPoint!<br>
1859: Adaptec!<br>
1860: Mylex!<br>
1861: ICP Vortex!<br>
1862: and IBM!<br>
1863: Takin' over the world!<br>
1864: <br>
1865: <br>
1866: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1867: <img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
1.63 deraadt 1868: </td></tr></table>
1869: <p>
1870: <em>
1871: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 1872: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1873: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.63 deraadt 1874: Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
1875: Theo de Raadt.
1876: Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
1877: Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
1878: Drums by Jim Buick.
1879: <br>
1880: <br>
1881: </em>
1882:
1883: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 1884: <a name=38></a>
1885: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
1886: 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
1887: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1888: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1889: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 1890: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
1891: <a href="38.html">OpenBSD 3.8</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.58 deraadt 1892: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1893: <br>
1.126 deraadt 1894: 4:24 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 1895: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
1.76 deraadt 1896: Instrumental version
1.118 deraadt 1897: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
1898: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
1.58 deraadt 1899: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1900: <a href="images/Jones.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 1901: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
1.58 deraadt 1902: <br>
1903: <br>
1904: <em>
1905: For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
1906: out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
1907: programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
1908: their devices.
1909: <p>
1910: Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
1911: for the
1.70 steven 1912: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1913: Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
1914: They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
1915: for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
1916: affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
1917: course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
1.59 jolan 1918: bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
1919: issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
1920: cannot solve these issues.
1.58 deraadt 1921: <p>
1922: The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
1923: of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
1924: public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
1925: different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
1926: development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
1927: "quality" to show its head.
1928: <p>
1929: RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
1930: <br>
1931: <ul>
1.60 pvalchev 1932: <li>Redundancy
1.58 deraadt 1933: <li>Repair
1934: </ul>
1935: You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
1.60 pvalchev 1936: fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
1937: array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
1.58 deraadt 1938: itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
1939: <p>
1940: Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
1941: sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
1942: so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
1943: never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
1944: <p>
1945: Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
1946: tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
1.67 jolan 1947: is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
1.58 deraadt 1948: we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
1949: <p>
1950: And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
1951: vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
1952: the AMI controllers.
1953: <p>
1954: There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
1955: rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
1956: basic RAID management:
1957: <ul>
1958: <li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
1959: <li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
1960: <li>Being able to silence the buzzer
1961: <li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
1962: </ul>
1963: <p>
1964: The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
1965: And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
1966: all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
1967: <p>
1968: Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
1969: work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
1970: or do some reverse engineering for their products.
1971: <p>
1.60 pvalchev 1972: But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
1973: ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
1.58 deraadt 1974: controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
1975: may mean we can never get documentation for the
1.70 steven 1976: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1977: controllers.
1978: The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
1979: would not get documentation, either.
1980: 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
1981: look saintly.
1982: <p>
1983: Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
1984: in OpenBSD, please buy
1985: <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
1986: RAID cards. And everything
1.88 miod 1987: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
1.58 deraadt 1988: will just work</a>.
1989: <p>
1990: And keep pestering the other vendors.
1991: <br>
1992: </em>
1993: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1994: <br>
1995: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1996: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1997: Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
1998: <br>
1999: Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
2000: <br>
2001: Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
2002: treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
2003: morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
2004: hackologist and adventurer!<br>
2005: <br>
2006: Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
2007: the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
2008: vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
2009: <br>
2010: Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
2011: <br>
2012: <br>
2013: <font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
2014: Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
2015: <br>
2016: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
2017: I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
2018: <br>
2019: <br>
2020: <font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
2021: They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
2022: <br>
2023: <br>
2024: <font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
2025: You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
2026: <br>
2027: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
2028: Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
2029: <br>
2030: <br>
2031: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
2032: SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
2033: <br>
2034: <font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
2035: API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
2036: <br>
2037: <br>
2038: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
2039: Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
2040: there before him
2041: lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
2042: secure operating system,
2043: to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
2044: the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
2045: <br>
2046: Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
2047: Puffiana Jones!<br>
2048: <br>
2049: <br>
2050: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2051: <img height=2160 width=380 src="images/38song.gif"><br>
1.58 deraadt 2052: </td></tr></table>
2053: <p>
2054: <em>
2055: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
2056: The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
2057: Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
1.112 deraadt 2058: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
2059: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.58 deraadt 2060: <br>
2061: <br>
2062: </em>
2063:
2064: <hr>
1.44 deraadt 2065: <a name=37></a>
2066: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
2067: 3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
2068: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2069: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 2070: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 2071: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
2072: <a href="37.html">OpenBSD 3.7</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.44 deraadt 2073: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2074: <br>
1.126 deraadt 2075: 10:08 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 2076: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 2077: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2078: <a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
2079: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
1.44 deraadt 2080: <br>
2081: <br>
2082: <em>
2083: For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
2084: good device support.<br>
2085: <br>
2086: Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
2087: programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
2088: Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
2089: here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
2090: documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
2091: drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
2092: ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
2093: still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
1.62 brad 2094: Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
1.46 henning 2095: solved in the ethernet market.<br>
1.44 deraadt 2096: <br>
2097: Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
2098: Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
2099: devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
2100: preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
2101: Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
2102: phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
2103: companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
2104: <br>
2105: The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
2106: <br>
2107: Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
2108: We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
2109: could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
1.52 deraadt 2110: not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
1.44 deraadt 2111: particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
2112: everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
2113: <br>
2114:
2115: Want to help us? Avoid
2116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
2117: Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
2118: Heck, avoid buying even regular
1.48 deraadt 2119: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
1.44 deraadt 2120: to send a message.
1.48 deraadt 2121: If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
1.44 deraadt 2122: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
2123: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
2124: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
2125: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
2126: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
2127: Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
1.52 deraadt 2128: which chipsets into which product.
1.44 deraadt 2129: <br>
2130: <br>
2131: Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
1.56 cloder 2132: Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
1.44 deraadt 2133: the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
2134: What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
2135: Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
2136: distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
1.49 nick 2137: are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
1.44 deraadt 2138: development information for all, but are even going further and
2139: telling their development communities to not work with us at
2140: pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
2141: <br>
2142: </em>
2143: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2144: <br>
2145: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
2146: The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
2147: her uncles on the farm,<br>
2148: send out the alarm<br>
2149: and the shit storm flies<br>
2150: E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
2151: With Puffathy inside,<br>
2152: twisting up a ride<br>
2153: to the land of OS<br>
2154: Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
2155: The wicked lawyers dead<br>
2156: The open slippers red are<br>
2157: Hers to take<br>
2158: <br>
1.53 otto 2159: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 2160: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
2161: <br>
2162: The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
2163: To get yourself back home<br>
2164: Take this yellow road and<br>
1.47 pvalchev 2165: You'll be fine<br>
1.44 deraadt 2166: Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
2167: Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
2168: give Taiwan your biz<br>
2169: You'll never lose<br>
2170: The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
2171: Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
2172: lazy and insane<br>
2173: but they sang OK<br>
2174: <br>
1.53 otto 2175: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 2176: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
2177: <br>
2178: Finally we're through the trees<br>
2179: The city glows<br>
2180: It's positively green<br>
2181: Pompously the wizard booms<br>
2182: He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
2183: <br>
2184: Go to the west<br>
2185: You must pass the test<br>
2186: For me<br>
2187: Bring me the ride<br>
2188: of the witch I despise<br>
2189: And you'll be free<br>
2190: <br>
2191: You don't need the broom<br>
2192: You don't need the shoes<br>
2193: You don't need the wiz<br>
2194: You will never lose<br>
2195: You have all you need<br>
2196: You always had heart<br>
2197: You always had courage<br>
2198: Did somebody fart?<br>
2199: You always had brains<br>
2200: You answered each call<br>
1.57 deraadt 2201: And this may surprise you<br>
1.44 deraadt 2202: But you've got some balls<br>
2203: So double click heels<br>
2204: and work with Taiwan<br>
2205: And speak to your doggie<br>
2206: You're already gone....<br>
2207: <br>
2208: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2209: <img height=1079 width=380 src="images/37song.gif"><br>
1.44 deraadt 2210: </td></tr></table>
2211: <p>
2212: <em>
2213: Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
2214: Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
2215: Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
2216: Semaka,
2217: guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
1.55 tom 2218: Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 2219: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at
2220: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.44 deraadt 2221: <br>
2222: <br>
2223: </em>
2224:
2225: <hr>
1.37 deraadt 2226: <a name=36></a>
2227: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
2228: 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
2229: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2230: <tr>
2231: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.126 deraadt 2232: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
2233: <a href="36.html">OpenBSD 3.6</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.37 deraadt 2234: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2235: <br>
1.126 deraadt 2236: 4:00 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 2237: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
1.37 deraadt 2238: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2239: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 2240: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Ponderosa" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
1.37 deraadt 2241: <br>
2242: <br>
2243: <em>
2244: What is up with some free software providers?!
2245: They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
2246: <p>
2247: While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
2248: has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
2249: we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
1.41 deraadt 2250: to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
1.37 deraadt 2251: going to remember them in the end.
2252: <p>
2253: This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
2254: have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
2255: offerings in the last few years:
2256: <ul>
2257: <li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
2258: developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
2259: called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
2260: code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
2261: we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
2262: stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
2263: told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
2264: replacement effort.
1.41 deraadt 2265: Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
1.37 deraadt 2266: <p>
2267: <li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
2268: packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
2269: that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
2270: were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
2271: and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
2272: one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
2273: <p>
2274: <li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
2275: of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
2276: web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
2277: and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
1.40 jolan 2278: a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
1.51 jcs 2279: doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
1.37 deraadt 2280: protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
2281: </ul>
2282: So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
2283: others who will follow them:
2284: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
2285: replace it.
2286: <br>
2287: </em>
2288: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2289: <br>
2290: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2291: <br>
2292: <br>
2293: Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
2294: Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
2295: Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
2296: Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
2297: <p>
2298: But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
1.38 pvalchev 2299: Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
1.37 deraadt 2300: Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
2301: Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
2302: <p>
2303: <br>
2304: He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
2305: So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
2306: Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
2307: They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
2308: <p>
2309: So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
2310: Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
2311: Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
2312: Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
2313: <p>
2314: <br>
2315: Pond-erosa Puff<br>
2316: wouldn't take no guff<br>
1.41 deraadt 2317: Water oughta be clean and free<br>
1.37 deraadt 2318: So he fought the fight<br>
2319: and he set things right<br>
2320: With his OpenBSD<br>
2321: <p>
2322: <br>
2323: Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
2324: But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
2325: Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
2326: He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
2327: <p>
2328: But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
2329: Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
2330: Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
2331: Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
2332: <p>
2333: <br>
2334: "The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
2335: And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
1.51 jcs 2336: "No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
1.37 deraadt 2337: Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
2338: <p>
2339: Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
2340: So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
2341: Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
2342: So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
2343: <p>
2344: <br>
2345: CHORUS<br>
2346: <p>
2347: <br>
2348: So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
2349: The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
2350: Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
1.42 deraadt 2351: Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
1.37 deraadt 2352: <p>
2353: So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
2354: Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
2355: They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
2356: Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
2357: <p>
2358: <br>
2359: I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
1.39 mcbride 2360: n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
1.37 deraadt 2361: You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
2362: and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
2363: <p>
2364: I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
2365: of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
1.41 deraadt 2366: So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
2367: Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
1.37 deraadt 2368: <p>
2369: <br>
2370: CHORUS<br>
2371: <br>
2372: <p>
2373: That's right!<br>
2374: I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
2375: Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
2376: <br>
2377: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2378: <img height=1634 width=263 src="images/36song.gif"><br>
1.37 deraadt 2379: </td></tr></table>
2380: <p>
2381: <em>
2382: Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
2383: Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
2384: Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
1.112 deraadt 2385: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.37 deraadt 2386: <br>
2387: <br>
2388: </em>
2389:
2390: <hr>
1.30 deraadt 2391: <a name=35></a>
1.33 deraadt 2392: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
2393: 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
1.30 deraadt 2394: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2395: <tr>
2396: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.126 deraadt 2397: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
2398: <a href="35.html">OpenBSD 3.5</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.55 tom 2399: uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
1.30 deraadt 2400: <br>
1.126 deraadt 2401: 5:21 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 2402: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 2403: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2404: <a href="images/Carp.gif">
2405: <img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
1.30 deraadt 2406: <br>
2407: <br>
2408: <em>
2409: A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
2410: and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
2411: themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
2412: redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
2413: Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
2414: <p>
2415: We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
2416: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
2417: and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
2418: firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
2419: them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
2420: sessions. Our
2421: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
2422: protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
2423: it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
2424: network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
2425: firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
2426: the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
2427: <p>
2428: The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
2429: 90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
2430: Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
2431: Redundancy Protocol); on
2432: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
2433: March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
2434: "Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
2435: that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
2436: standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
2437: IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
2438: though there was a patent in the space. Why?
1.122 deraadt 2439: <a href="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/doc/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
1.30 deraadt 2440: There was much deliberation</a>
2441: at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
2442: politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
2443: standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
2444: (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
2445: programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
2446: RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
2447: the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
2448: and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
2449: eh?
2450: <p>
2451: Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
2452: (HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
2453: recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
2454: -- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
2455: claim patent rights.
2456: <p>
2457: On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
2458: lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
2459: its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
2460: impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
2461: implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
2462: Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
2463: small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
2464: against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
2465: members took note of our complaints,
1.122 deraadt 2466: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061109082106/http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
1.30 deraadt 2467: however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
2468: patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
2469: <p>
2470: A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
2471: to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
2472: and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
2473: backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
2474: avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
1.55 tom 2475: participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
1.30 deraadt 2476: Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
2477: is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
2478: like all others, except against the community.
2479: <p>
2480: Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
2481: benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
2482: <p>
2483: Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
2484: correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
2485: designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
2486: problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
2487: same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
2488: document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
2489: We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
2490: lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
2491: it to use cryptography.
2492: <p>
2493: The combination of
2494: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
2495: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
2496: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
2497: has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
2498: have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
2499: running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
2500: group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
2501: our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
2502: to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
2503: this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
2504: <p>
2505: As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
2506: regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
2507: for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
2508: to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
2509: were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
2510: anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
2511: We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
2512: these decisions, but they declined to reply.
2513: <p>
2514: This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
2515: this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
2516: <br>
2517: </em>
2518: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2519: <br>
2520: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2521: <br>
2522: <br>
2523: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2524: Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
2525: <br>
2526: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2527: A what?
2528: <br>
2529: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2530: A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
2531: <br>
2532: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2533: Well, it's free isn't it?
2534: <br>
2535: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2536: Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
2537: <br>
2538: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2539: What?
2540: <br>
2541: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2542: He is an.... redundancy protocol.
2543: <br>
2544: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2545: CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
2546: <br>
2547: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2548: Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
2549: they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
2550: <br>
2551: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2552: You must be a looney.
2553: <br>
2554: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2555: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
2556: because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
2557: that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
2558: standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
2559: on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
2560: Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
2561: patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
2562: companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
2563: bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
2564: <br>
2565: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2566: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
2567: <br>
2568: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2569: Yes.
2570: <br>
2571: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2572: For a free redundancy protocol?
2573: <br>
2574: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2575: Yes.
2576: <br>
2577: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2578: You are a looney.
2579: <br>
2580: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2581: Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
2582: patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
2583: VRRP.
2584: <br>
2585: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2586: You don't need a license for your VRRP.
2587: <br>
2588: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1.32 otto 2589: I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
1.30 deraadt 2590: <br>
2591: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2592: There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
2593: <br>
2594: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2595: Yes there is!
2596: <br>
2597: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2598: Isn't!
2599: <br>
2600: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2601: Is!
2602: <br>
2603: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2604: Isn't!
2605: <br>
2606: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2607: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
2608: <br>
2609: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2610: This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
2611: out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
2612: <br>
2613: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2614: The man didn't have the right form.
2615: <br>
2616: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2617: What man?
2618: <br>
2619: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2620: Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
2621: <br>
2622: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2623: The looney detector van, you mean.
2624: <br>
2625: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2626: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
2627: <br>
2628: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2629: What redundancy detector van?
2630: <br>
2631: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2632: The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
2633: <br>
2634: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2635: Cizzz-coeee?
2636: <br>
2637: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2638: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
2639: so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
2640: pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
2641: being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
2642: <br>
2643: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1.34 otto 2644: How much did you pay for that?
1.30 deraadt 2645: <br>
2646: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2647: Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
2648: <br>
2649: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2650: What PIX?
2651: <br>
2652: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2653: The PIX I'm replacing!
2654: <br>
2655: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2656: So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
2657: license it?
2658: <br>
2659: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2660: There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
2661: protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
2662: <br>
2663: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2664: No they didn't!
2665: <br>
2666: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2667: Did!
2668: <br>
2669: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2670: Didn't!
2671: <br>
2672: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2673: Did, did, did and did!
2674: <br>
2675: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2676: Oh, all right.
2677: <br>
2678: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2679: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
2680: license?
2681: <br>
2682: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2683: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
2684: <br>
2685: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2686: In that case, give me a Firewall License.
2687: <br>
2688: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2689: A license?
2690: <br>
2691: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2692: Yes.
2693: <br>
2694: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2695: For your firewall?
2696: <br>
2697: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2698: No.
2699: <br>
2700: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2701: No?
2702: <br>
2703: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2704: No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
2705: <br>
2706: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2707: You're off your chump.
2708: <br>
2709: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2710: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
1.43 deraadt 2711: to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
1.30 deraadt 2712: semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
2713: listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
2714: <br>
2715: <br>
2716: A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
2717: <br>
2718: VRRP, philosophically,<br>
2719: must ipso facto standard be<br>
2720: But standard it<br>
2721: needs to be free<br>
2722: vis a vis<br>
2723: the IETF<br>
2724: you see?<br>
2725: <br>
2726: But can VRRP<br>
2727: be said to be<br>
2728: or not to be<br>
2729: a standard, see,<br>
2730: when VRRP can not be free,<br>
2731: due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
2732: <br>
2733: Singing...<br>
2734: <br>
2735: La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
2736: VRRP ain't free.<br>
2737: O P E N B S D<br>
2738: CARP is free<br>
2739: <br>
2740: Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
2741: let through IETF to mean<br>
2742: my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
2743: No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
2744: <br>
2745: Fiddle dee dum,<br>
2746: Fiddle dee dee,<br>
2747: CARP and PF are free.<br>
2748: <br>
2749: 1 1 2,<br>
2750: Tee Hee Hee,<br>
2751: CARP and PF are free.<br>
2752: <br>
2753: My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
2754: bisected accidentally,<br>
2755: one summer afternoon by me.<br>
2756: Redundancy's good when free.<br>
2757: <br>
2758: Redundancy must be free.<br>
2759: Redundancy must be free.<br>
2760: <br>
2761: The End<br>
2762: <br>
2763: Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
2764: <br>
2765: No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
2766: <br>
2767: Geddy must be free.<br>
2768: <br>
2769: <br>
2770: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2771: <img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
1.30 deraadt 2772: </td></tr></table>
2773: <p>
2774: <em>
2775: <font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
2776: Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
2777: <br>
1.34 otto 2778: <font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
1.30 deraadt 2779: Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
1.37 deraadt 2780: Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
1.30 deraadt 2781: Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
2782: Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
2783: <br>
2784: <br>
2785: </em>
2786:
2787: <hr>
1.20 deraadt 2788: <a name=34></a>
1.33 deraadt 2789: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
2790: 3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
1.20 deraadt 2791: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2792: <tr>
2793: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.126 deraadt 2794: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
2795: <a href="34.html">OpenBSD 3.4</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.20 deraadt 2796: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2797: <br>
1.126 deraadt 2798: 3:30 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 2799: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2800: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2801: <a href="images/Hood.gif">
2802: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
1.20 deraadt 2803: <br>
2804: <br>
2805: <em>
2806: Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
1.26 deraadt 2807: the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
1.20 deraadt 2808: forces of the draconian government!
2809: <p>
2810: <br>
2811: As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
2812: making release artwork and music which are allegorical
2813: of recent happenings.
2814: <p>
2815: Two years ago we became involved with the University
2816: of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
2817: security research and development .. on things that
2818: we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
2819: wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
2820: DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
2821: credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
2822: a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
2823: promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
2824: was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
1.21 deraadt 2825: than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
1.20 deraadt 2826: forces of government, and needed to be careful.
2827: <p>
2828: A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
2829: and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
2830: they also aggressively backed out of contractual
2831: obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
1.67 jolan 2832: this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
1.20 deraadt 2833: because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
1.55 tom 2834: newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
1.20 deraadt 2835: making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
2836: theft of oil.
2837: <p>
2838: The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
2839: DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
2840: <p>
2841: "As a result of the DARPA review of the
2842: project, and due to world events and the evolving
2843: threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
2844: the Government on April 21 advised the University
2845: to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
2846: the project."
2847: <p>
2848: That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
2849: We had lost financial support, but the release of the
2850: statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
2851: of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
2852: <p>
2853: Since the termination came near natural contract
2854: termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
2855: than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
2856: stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
2857: we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
1.61 grunk 2858: proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
1.20 deraadt 2859: "Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
2860: developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
2861: <p>
2862: We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
2863: we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
2864: of Robin Hood.
2865: </em>
2866: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2867: <br>
2868: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2869: <br>
2870: Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
2871: Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
2872: He had found the crusades<br>
2873: were an endless charade<br>
2874: So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
2875: <br>
2876: <br>
2877: One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
2878: Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
2879: Clever chums they did find<br>
2880: other fish of their kind<br>
2881: Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
2882: <br>
2883: <br>
2884: Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
2885: The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
2886: With CD's and their freedom<br>
2887: for to share online<br>
2888: And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
2889: <br>
2890: <br>
2891: So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
2892: and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
2893: Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
2894: to the teaming schools<br>
2895: Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
2896: <br>
2897: <br>
2898: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2899: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2900: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2901: So raise up your glass and<br>
2902: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2903: Fish for never running<br>
2904: and making something good!<br>
2905: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2906: <br>
2907: <br>
2908: Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
2909: The Hood's a bad ball<br>
2910: Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
2911: He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
2912: Think he's a hero?<br>
2913: Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
1.24 deraadt 2914: He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
1.20 deraadt 2915: Read the Wanted poster<br>
2916: of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
2917: We gettin' back the booty<br>
2918: or we take away your worms too<br>
2919: <br>
2920: <br>
2921: Yo! Word to the classes<br>
2922: Put on your glasses<br>
2923: I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
2924: Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
2925: He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
2926: I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
2927: who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
2928: And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
2929: happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
2930: No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
2931: and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
2932: <br>
2933: <br>
2934: Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
1.25 deraadt 2935: The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
1.20 deraadt 2936: And took back all the booty<br>
2937: Puff intended for the poor<br>
2938: The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
2939: <br>
2940: <br>
2941: Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
2942: And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
2943: He loaded all the loot<br>
2944: to give it back and big surprise<br>
2945: He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
2946: <br>
2947: <br>
2948: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2949: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2950: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2951: So raise up your glass and<br>
2952: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2953: Fish for never running<br>
2954: and making something good!<br>
2955: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2956: <br>
2957:
2958: <br>
2959: <br>
2960: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2961: <img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
1.20 deraadt 2962: </td></tr></table>
2963: <p>
2964: <em>
2965: Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
2966: Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2967: <br>
2968: Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
2969: <br>
2970: Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
1.55 tom 2971: Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
1.20 deraadt 2972: <br>
2973: Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
2974: Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
2975: <br>
2976: </em>
2977:
1.23 jose 2978: <br>
2979: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 2980: <a name=33></a>
1.33 deraadt 2981: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
2982: 3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2983: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2984: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 2985: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 2986: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
2987: <a href="33.html">OpenBSD 3.3</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.11 deraadt 2988: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2989: <br>
1.126 deraadt 2990: 4:00 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 2991: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2992: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2993: <a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
2994: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
1.12 deraadt 2995: <br>
2996: <br>
1.14 deraadt 2997: <em>
1.69 deraadt 2998: Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
2999: face some pretty crazy challenges.
1.12 deraadt 3000: <br>
1.69 deraadt 3001: This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
3002: we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
3003: request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
3004: III processors. We want documentation, because
3005: these are the fastest processors with a per-page
3006: eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
3007: our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
3008: the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
3009: this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
1.36 deraadt 3010: mode.<br>
3011: <br>
3012: And it is going to be faster...<br>
1.12 deraadt 3013: </em>
1.11 deraadt 3014: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
3015: Deep through the mists of time<br>
3016: Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
3017: Back to the age of darkness<br>
3018: Black was the protocol<br>
3019: <p>
3020: A King ruled the web with fear<br>
3021: Spilling the blood of men<br>
3022: Then from the ocean came<br>
3023: Puff the Barbarian<br>
1.17 deraadt 3024: <br>
3025: <br>
1.11 deraadt 3026: Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
3027: Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
3028: Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
3029: Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
3030: <p>
3031: Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
3032: A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
3033: Constraints were slain as well<br>
3034: Hacked his way out to the C<br>
3035: <p>
3036: And there he found<br>
3037: His destiny<br>
3038: Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
3039: "Xor taking care of me"<br>
3040: <p>
3041: Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
3042: "Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
3043: Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
3044: Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
3045: <p>
3046: At the tower Puff appealed<br>
3047: For the wisdom of the One<br>
3048: Denied, his mind did reel<br>
3049: Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
3050: <p>
3051: Broke down the guard<br>
3052: Cause math is hard<br>
1.18 deraadt 3053: Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
1.11 deraadt 3054: All alone and only bones<br>
3055: <p>
3056: Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
3057: Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
3058: And Puff, the land secured<br>
3059: The new King Barbarian!<br>
3060: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 3061: <img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
1.11 deraadt 3062: </td></tr></table>
3063: <p>
3064: <em>
3065: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
3066: Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
3067: <br>
3068: Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
3069: drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
3070: </em>
3071:
3072: <br>
3073: <hr>
1.9 millert 3074: <a name=32></a>
1.33 deraadt 3075: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
3076: 3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 3077: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
3078: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 3079: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 3080: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
3081: <a href="32.html">OpenBSD 3.2</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.11 deraadt 3082: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
3083: <br>
1.126 deraadt 3084: 3:00 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 3085: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 3086: <br>
1.76 deraadt 3087: <a href="images/MrPond.gif">
3088: <img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
1.11 deraadt 3089: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.9 millert 3090: Goldflipper<br>
3091: With golden skin<br>
3092: and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
3093: He's the machine<br>
3094: Designed to dismember your life<br>
3095: <p>
3096: And the fish<br>
3097: Protecting us all from the cat<br>
3098: And the cat<br>
3099: Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
3100: <p>
3101: Cyborg on a mission<br>
3102: To do some Puff fishin'<br>
3103: The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
3104: <p>
3105: (short instrumental intro)
1.1 deraadt 3106: <p>
1.9 millert 3107: You'll need some machismo to<br>
3108: catch the spikey one<br>
3109: He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
3110: make the system run<br>
1.1 deraadt 3111: <p>
1.9 millert 3112: But Flip's here for fun<br>
3113: and without a gun<br>
3114: He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
1.1 deraadt 3115: <p>
1.9 millert 3116: She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
3117: such a sexy catch<br>
3118: Is she spying on him or<br>
3119: just a seafood match?<br>
1.1 deraadt 3120: <p>
1.9 millert 3121: Oh double seven<br>
3122: Send me to Heaven<br>
3123: Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
1.1 deraadt 3124: <p>
1.9 millert 3125: The women are fond<br>
3126: She knows what to do<br>
3127: She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
1.1 deraadt 3128: <p>
1.9 millert 3129: Goldflipper is gone<br>
3130: Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
1.11 deraadt 3131: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
3132: <br>
3133: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 3134: <p>
3135: <em>
1.9 millert 3136: Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.1 deraadt 3137: <br>
1.9 millert 3138: Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
3139: Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
3140: Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
1.1 deraadt 3141: </em>
3142:
3143: <br>
3144: <hr>
1.3 ian 3145: <a name=31></a>
1.33 deraadt 3146: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
3147: 3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 3148: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
3149: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 3150: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 3151: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
3152: <a href="31.html">OpenBSD 3.1</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.11 deraadt 3153: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
3154: <br>
1.126 deraadt 3155: 3:00 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 3156: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 3157: <br>
1.76 deraadt 3158: <a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
3159: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 3160: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 3161: BSD fight buffer reign<br>
3162: Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
3163: Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
3164: Puffy rip attacker out<br>
3165: <p>
3166: Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
3167: Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
3168: <p>
3169: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
3170: Über tragic<br>
3171: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
3172: <p>
3173: Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
3174: Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
3175: Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
3176: Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
1.11 deraadt 3177: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 3178: <p>
3179: Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
3180: Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
3181: <p>
3182: Chorus
3183: <p>
3184: Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
3185: Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
3186: Penguin lurking under bed<br>
3187: Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
3188: <p>
3189: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
3190: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
3191: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
3192: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
3193: <p>
3194: Chorus<br>
1.11 deraadt 3195: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 3196: <p>
3197: <em>
1.3 ian 3198: Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
1.1 deraadt 3199: Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
3200: drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
3201: <br>
1.3 ian 3202: Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
1.1 deraadt 3203: <br>
3204: Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
3205: </em>
3206:
1.8 millert 3207: <br>
3208: <hr>
1.9 millert 3209: <a name=30></a>
1.33 deraadt 3210: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
3211: 3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 3212: <p>
3213: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
3214: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 3215: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.126 deraadt 3216: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD items]</a><br>
3217: <a href="30.html">OpenBSD 3.0</a> CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.11 deraadt 3218: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
3219: <br>
1.126 deraadt 3220: 3:00 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
1.118 deraadt 3221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 3222: <br>
1.76 deraadt 3223: <a href="images/Rock.jpg">
3224: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 3225: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 3226: <br>
3227: <br>
1.9 millert 3228: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
3229: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1.8 millert 3230: <p>
1.9 millert 3231: During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
3232: OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
1.8 millert 3233: <p>
1.9 millert 3234: I'm secure by default<br>
1.8 millert 3235: <p>
1.27 deraadt 3236: They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
1.9 millert 3237: deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
1.8 millert 3238: <p>
1.9 millert 3239: RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
1.8 millert 3240: <p>
1.16 deraadt 3241: Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
1.9 millert 3242: I'm secure by default<br>
3243: stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
1.8 millert 3244: <br>
1.11 deraadt 3245: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.8 millert 3246: <br>
1.11 deraadt 3247: </td></tr></table>
3248: <p>
1.8 millert 3249: <em>
1.9 millert 3250: By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
3251: <br>
3252: Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
1.35 nick 3253: John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
1.9 millert 3254: <br>
3255: Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
1.8 millert 3256: <br>
1.9 millert 3257: Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
1.8 millert 3258: </em>
3259:
1.1 deraadt 3260: <hr>
1.79 deraadt 3261: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="OpenBSD"></a>
3262: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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3266: </html>
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