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1.3 ian 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">Release Songs</font></h2><hr>
1.1 deraadt 19:
1.20 deraadt 20: <p>
1.71 deraadt 21: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
22: <tr>
1.72 deraadt 23: <td valign="top" width="45%">
1.90 deraadt 24: <a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"<br>
1.89 deraadt 25: <a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"<br>
26: <a href="#40">4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a> and
27: <a href="#audio_extra">"OpenVOX" (extra track)</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 28: <a href="#39">3.9: "Blob!"</a><br>
29: <a href="#38">3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a><br>
30: <a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS"</a><br>
31: <a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a><br>
32: <a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a><br>
33: <a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a><br>
34: <a href="#33">3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a><br>
35: <a href="#32">3.2: "Goldflipper"</a><br>
36: <a href="#31">3.1: "Systemagic"</a><br>
37: <a href="#30">3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a><br>
38: </td><td valign="top" width="1%">
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44: The 3.0 - 4.0 songs are available on an Audio CD celebrating
45: 10 years of OpenBSD releases.
46: <br>
47: <br>
1.76 deraadt 48: An <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
49: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") is included which details
50: the process of making the art and music each release.
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1.72 deraadt 52: <br>
1.71 deraadt 53: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 54: Order an Audio CDROM from our International site</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 55: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order.eu?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 56: Order an Audio CDROM from our European site</a><br>
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1.20 deraadt 58: <p>
59:
60: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 61: <a name=42></a>
62: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="42.html">
63: 4.2: "100001 1010101"</a></font></h2>
64: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
65: <tr>
66: <td valign="top" width="33%">
67: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.2 or other items]</a><br>
68: OpenBSD 4.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
69: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
70: <br>
71: 4:40 minutes
72: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.mp3">(MP3 4.0MB)</a>
73: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.ogg">(OGG 6.4MB)</a><br>
74: <br>
75: <a href="images/Marathon.jpg">
76: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Marathon" src="images/Marathon.jpg"></a>
77: <br>
78: <br>
79: <em>
80: Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do.
1.91 ! merdely 81: This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have
1.90 deraadt 82: remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software,
83: that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share
84: these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open
85: Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one
86: would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't
87: seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects
88: away from the ideals very quickly.
89: <p>
90: Much of any operating system's useability depends on device support,
1.91 ! merdely 91: and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices
1.90 deraadt 92: available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project
93: could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or
94: including binary objects in the operating system for which no source
95: code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden
96: inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset
97: of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about
98: getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.
99: <p>
100: Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals,
101: we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues,
1.91 ! merdely 102: resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much
1.90 deraadt 103: recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also
104: led to other issues.
105: <p>
106: We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used
107: by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often
108: than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still
109: properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the
110: same spirit that they were given in the first place.
111: <p>
112: That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our
113: stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal;
114: we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more
115: from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux
116: projects.
117: <p>
118: Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all
119: codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants
120: of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the
121: SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source
122: into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off
123: as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution
124: -- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who
125: have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself,
126: not for their agenda.
127: <p>
128: The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do
129: what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We
130: don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our
131: image. We are here to have fun doing right.
132: <p>
133: </em>
134: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
135: <br>
136: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
137: <br>
138: The starting line is nervous<br>
139: we burst upon the course<br>
140: Electric is our passion<br>
141: An open hearted force<br>
142: <br>
143: The water's full of dangers<br>
144: That interrupt the flow<br>
145: And soon the spirit splinters<br>
146: as temptation takes it's toll<br>
147: <br>
148: *Give and get back some<br>
149: Sharing it all<br>
150: Path we know best<br>
151: we're having a ball<br>
152: Opulent mission<br>
153: Lost in our passion<br>
154: You can still choose<br>
155: If you don't swim to win<br>
156: you'll never lose*<br>
157: <br>
158: One Zero Zero Zero Zero One<br>
159: <br>
160: The window is a wall by now<br>
161: A sieve of sickened holes<br>
162: The water chicken stealing maps<br>
163: Mistaking us for foes<br>
164: <br>
165: The sun a son of Icarus<br>
166: Flies too close to itself<br>
167: Forbidden fruit is blinded<br>
168: by the toys upon the shelf<br>
169: <br>
170: *CHORUS*<br>
171: <br>
172: One Zero One Zero One Zero One<br>
173: <br>
174: Slow and steady wins they say<br>
175: but this is not a race<br>
176: It's not about who takes a prize<br>
177: for first or second place<br>
178: <br>
179: Imaginary rings of brass<br>
180: Were traded for real goals<br>
181: The vision and the mission lost<br>
182: For those with corporate souls<br>
183: <br>
184: *Give and get back some<br>
185: Sharing it all<br>
186: Path we know best<br>
187: we're having a ball<br>
188: Give and get zeros<br>
189: Give and get ones<br>
190: Given to you but<br>
191: Not you to us<br>
192: Opulent mission<br>
193: Lost in our passion<br>
194: You can still choose<br>
195: If you don't swim to win<br>
196: you'll never lose<br>
197: You'll never lose*<br>
198: <br>
199: <br>
200: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
201: <img width=396 height=1876 src="images/42song.gif"><br>
202: </td></tr></table>
203: <p>
204: <em>
205: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed and
206: mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
207: Vocals by Duncan McDonnald (www.thegreatgavalan.com). Drums by
208: John McNeil. Guitar by Jeff Drummond. Bass and keyboards by
209: Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and Theo de Raadt.
210: <br>
211: <br>
212: </em>
213:
214: <hr>
1.81 deraadt 215: <a name=41></a>
216: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
217: 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
218: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
219: <tr>
220: <td valign="top" width="33%">
221: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]</a><br>
222: OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
223: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
224: <br>
225: 4:19 minutes
226: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
227: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
228: <br>
229: <a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
230: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
231: <br>
232: <br>
233: <em>
234: As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
235: is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
236: useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
237: hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
238: that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
239: device support.
240: <p>
1.85 mbalmer 241: Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
1.81 deraadt 242: all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
243: interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
244: mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
245: time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
246: challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
247: of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
248: weird, or even buggy.
249: <p>
250: When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
251: become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
252: for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
253: the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
254: these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
255: from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
1.84 matthieu 256: documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
1.81 deraadt 257: actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
258: OpenBSD, either).
259: <p>
260: When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
261: our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
262: and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
263: unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
264: 20 years building
1.83 wvdputte 265: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
1.81 deraadt 266: political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
267: <p>
1.82 jsg 268: A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
1.87 tom 269: some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
1.81 deraadt 270: of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
271: into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
272: communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
273: requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
274: work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
275: would be fantastic by now.
276: <p>
277: We only ask that
1.83 wvdputte 278: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
1.81 deraadt 279: users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
280: </em>
281: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
282: <br>
283: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
284: <br>
285: Here's an old story ...<br>
286: <br>
287: <br>
288: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
289: We all know the details<br>
290: Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
291: some serious loot,<br>
292: and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
293: Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
294: The little guy who<br>
295: did the best with what he had<br>
296: <br>
297: <br>
298: Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
299: Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
300: in moderation<br>
301: Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
302: <br>
303: <br>
304: If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
305: never give him the password<br>
306: If he goes penguin on you,<br>
307: stop - being - his brother.<br>
308: When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
1.86 tom 309: A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
1.81 deraadt 310: So do the best with what you have<br>
311: <br>
312: <br>
313: Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
314: that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
315: But unlike Vendors,<br>
316: he at least keeps the door open<br>
317: <br>
318: <br>
319: Vendors of water that should be free<br>
320: Look upon their words and despair<br>
321: Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
322: then made him better off dead<br>
323: Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
324: <br>
325: <br>
326: Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
327: The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
328: and left us with open source (sores)<br>
329: sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
330: for each consecutive cut<br>
331: But with the salty water of labour<br>
332: parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
333: <br>
334: <br>
335: It's not whether you're well off<br>
336: it's where you dig the well<br>
337: The best the little guy can do is what<br>
338: the little guy does right<br>
339: <br>
340: <br>
341: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
342: <img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
343: </td></tr></table>
344: <p>
345: <em>
346: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
347: (1-403-233-0350). Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
348: <br>
349: <br>
350: </em>
351:
352: <hr>
1.76 deraadt 353: <a name=audio_extra></a>
354: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
355: "OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
356: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
357: <tr>
358: <td valign="top" width="33%">
359: <a href="orders.html">[Order the OpenBSD audio CD or other items]</a><br>
360: These are the lyrics for the extra track on the OpenBSD Audio CD.<br>
361: <br>
362: 4:00 minutes
363: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
364: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
365: <br>
366: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
367: <br>
368: <br>
369: <em>
370: This is an <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
371: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.
372: <p>
373: This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
374: and music for each OpenBSD release.
375: Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
376: going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
377: </em>
378: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
379: <br>
380: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
381: Be Open<br>
382: Be Vocal<br>
383: Stay Open<br>
384: Stay Vocal<br>
385: <br>
386: (repeat)<br>
387: <br>
388: OpenBSD<br>
389: <br>
390: Twice a year,<br>
391: me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
392: at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
393: and take strips out of liars.<br>
394: He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
395: He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
396: button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
1.78 deraadt 397: on the systematicalifornication<br>
1.76 deraadt 398: and a license application<br>
399: is a fishybomination<br>
400: and a random allocation<br>
401: got a copywritten melanoma<br>
402: sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
403: OK stop.<br>
404: I get it.<br>
405: Some asshole lied.<br>
406: <br>
407: And then he says,<br>
1.78 deraadt 408: "The crashorama villaination<br>
1.76 deraadt 409: lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
410: the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
411: in the cyber cider documation<br>
412: universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
413: cohabitationizizingation"<br>
414: OK stop.<br>
415: I get it.<br>
416: <a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
417: Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
418: but he was only open for business.<br></a>
419: I get it.<br>
420: Where's my pencils?<br>
421: Bring me my mic!<br>
422: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
423: Be Open<br>
424: Be Vocal<br>
425: Stay Open<br>
426: Stay Vocal<br>
427: <br>
428: (repeat)<br>
429: <br>
430: Then he has another beer and<br>
431: gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
432: Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
433: And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
434: the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
435: where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
436: a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
437: and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
438: or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
439: and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
440: And squeeze in five concepts<br>
441: every time, every song!<br>
442: And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
443: if I draw the device wrong!<br>
444: "It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
445: And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
446: cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
447: <br>
448: (beat boxin')<br>
449: <br>
450: <br>
451: </td></tr></table>
452: <p>
453: <em>
454: <br>
455: </em>
456:
457: <hr>
458: <a name=40></a>
459: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
460: 4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
461: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
462: <tr>
463: <td valign="top" width="33%">
464: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.0 or other items]</a><br>
465: OpenBSD 4.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
466: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
467: <br>
468: 2:40 minutes
469: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
470: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
471: <br>
472: <a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
473: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
474: <br>
475: <br>
476: <em>
477: The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
1.77 deraadt 478: resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
1.76 deraadt 479: servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
1.77 deraadt 480: sells to continue our development goals.
1.76 deraadt 481: <br>
482: <br>
483: While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
1.77 deraadt 484: around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
485: or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
1.76 deraadt 486: the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
487: approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
488: the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
489: write and record a song that also matches the theme.
490: <br>
491: <br>
492: Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
493: so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
494: <br>
495: <br>
496: This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
497: try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
498: instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
499: write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
500: that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
1.77 deraadt 501: <br>
502: <br>
1.76 deraadt 503: OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
504: with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
1.77 deraadt 505: of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
506: songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
507: under such duress that much of our code gets written.
1.76 deraadt 508: <br>
509: <br>
510: We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
511: Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
512: returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
513: other developers.
514: </em>
515: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
516: <br>
517: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
518: <br>
519: <br>
520: <br>
521: Humppa negala<br>
522: Humppa negala<br>
523: Humppa negala<br>
524: Venismechah<br>
525: <br>
526: Humppa negala<br>
527: Humppa negala<br>
528: Humppa negala<br>
529: Venismechah<br>
530: <br>
531: Humppa neranenah<br>
532: Humppa neranenah<br>
533: Humppa neranenah<br>
534: Venismechah<br>
535: <br>
536: Humppa neranenah<br>
537: Humppa neranenah<br>
538: Humppa neranenah<br>
539: Venismechah<br>
540: <br>
541: Uru, uru achim!<br>
542: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
543: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
544: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
545: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
546: uru achim!<br>
547: uru achim!<br>
548: OpenBSD!<br>
549: <br>
550: <br>
551: (circus torture)<br>
552: <br>
553: <br>
554: Humppa negala<br>
555: Humppa negala<br>
556: Humppa negala<br>
557: Venismechah<br>
558: <br>
559: Humppa negala<br>
560: Humppa negala<br>
561: Humppa negala<br>
562: Venismechah<br>
563: <br>
564: Humppa neranenah<br>
565: Humppa neranenah<br>
566: Humppa neranenah<br>
567: Venismechah<br>
568: <br>
569: Humppa neranenah<br>
570: Humppa neranenah<br>
571: Humppa neranenah<br>
572: Venismechah<br>
573: <br>
574: Uru, uru achim!<br>
575: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
576: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
577: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
578: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
579: uru achim!<br>
580: uru achim!<br>
581: OpenBSD!<br>
582: <br>
583: <br>
584: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
585: <img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
586: </td></tr></table>
587: <p>
588: <em>
1.90 deraadt 589: Based on the traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
1.76 deraadt 590: Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
591: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
592: (1-403-233-0350). Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
593: Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
594: <br>
595: <br>
596: </em>
597:
598: <hr>
1.63 deraadt 599: <a name=39></a>
1.64 jolan 600: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
1.63 deraadt 601: 3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
602: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
603: <tr>
604: <td valign="top" width="33%">
605: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.9 or other items]</a><br>
606: OpenBSD 3.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
607: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
608: <br>
1.76 deraadt 609: 4:00 minutes
610: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
611: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.63 deraadt 612: <br>
1.76 deraadt 613: <a href="images/Blob.jpg">
614: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
1.63 deraadt 615: <br>
616: <br>
617: <em>
618: OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
619: is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
620: without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
621: obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
622: and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
623: for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
624: <br>
625: <br>
626: Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
627: cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
628: <br>
629: <br>
630: But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
631: quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
632: no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
633: can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
634: <br>
635: <br>
636: <ul>
637: <li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
638: at any time.<br>
639: <br>
640: <li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
641: <br>
642: <li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
643: <br>
644: <li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
645: <br>
646: <li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
647: <br>
648: <li>
649: Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
650: less portable.<br>
651: <br>
652: <li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
653: </ul>
654: <br>
655: <br>
656: This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
657: source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
658: new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
659: vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
660: the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
661: assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
662: </em>
663: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
664: <br>
665: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
666: <br><br><br>
667: Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
668: when we found him on the beach,<br>
669: there was nothin' shady<br>
670: you could bounce him on your knee<br>
671: like a ba-ba-ball<br>
672: and his first little word was adorable<br>
673: <br>
674: He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
675: blah blah blah<br>
676: Blah!<br>
677: <br>
678: <br>
679: Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
680: But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
681: <br>
682: <br>
683: Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
684: He could get your motor runnin'<br>
685: with a drop of goo<br>
686: He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
687: But by the time he graduated<br>
688: Blob was business slime!<br>
689: <br>
690: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
691: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
692: blah blah<br>
693: <br>
694: <br>
695: He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
696: <br>
697: <br>
698: Now everybody had it<br>
699: they was drivin' around<br>
700: They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
701: for convenience now<br>
702: Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
703: And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
704: <br>
705: <br>
706: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
707: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
708: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
709: blah blah<br>
710: <br>
711: <br>
712: It's linkin' time!<br>
713: <br>
714: <br>
715: Now it was out of control<br>
716: n' fishy's came to depend<br>
717: on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
718: Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
719: Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
720: <br>
721: <br>
722: He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
723: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
724: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
725: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
726: B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
727: <br>
728: <br>
1.66 deraadt 729: Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
1.63 deraadt 730: And he battled the Blob<br>
731: who had crossed the line<br>
732: He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
733: I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
734: <br>
735: <br>
736: But it was too late!<br>
737: Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
738: He wants your video!<br>
739: Ya he wants your net!<br>
740: He wants your drive!<br>
741: He wants it all!!<br>
742: <br>
743: <br>
744: Somebody help us!<br>
745: Noooooooo!<br>
746: NVIDIA!<br>
747: Intel!<br>
748: Atheros!<br>
749: 3-Ware!<br>
750: VIA!<br>
751: ATI!<br>
752: Broadcom!<br>
753: TI!<br>
754: Myricom!<br>
755: HighPoint!<br>
756: Adaptec!<br>
757: Mylex!<br>
758: ICP Vortex!<br>
759: and IBM!<br>
760: Takin' over the world!<br>
761: <br>
762: <br>
763: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 764: <img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
1.63 deraadt 765: </td></tr></table>
766: <p>
767: <em>
768: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
769: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
770: Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
771: Theo de Raadt.
772: Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
773: Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
774: Drums by Jim Buick.
775: <br>
776: <br>
777: </em>
778:
779: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 780: <a name=38></a>
781: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
782: 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
783: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
784: <tr>
785: <td valign="top" width="33%">
786: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]</a><br>
787: OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
788: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
789: <br>
1.76 deraadt 790: 4:24 minutes
791: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
792: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
793: Instrumental version
794: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
795: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
1.58 deraadt 796: <br>
1.76 deraadt 797: <a href="images/Jones.jpg">
798: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
1.58 deraadt 799: <br>
800: <br>
801: <em>
802: For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
803: out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
804: programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
805: their devices.
806: <p>
807: Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
808: for the
1.70 steven 809: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 810: Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
811: They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
812: for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
813: affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
814: course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
1.59 jolan 815: bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
816: issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
817: cannot solve these issues.
1.58 deraadt 818: <p>
819: The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
820: of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
821: public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
822: different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
823: development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
824: "quality" to show its head.
825: <p>
826: RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
827: <br>
828: <ul>
1.60 pvalchev 829: <li>Redundancy
1.58 deraadt 830: <li>Repair
831: </ul>
832: You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
1.60 pvalchev 833: fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
834: array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
1.58 deraadt 835: itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
836: <p>
837: Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
838: sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
839: so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
840: never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
841: <p>
842: Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
843: tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
1.67 jolan 844: is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
1.58 deraadt 845: we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
846: <p>
847: And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
848: vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
849: the AMI controllers.
850: <p>
851: There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
852: rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
853: basic RAID management:
854: <ul>
855: <li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
856: <li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
857: <li>Being able to silence the buzzer
858: <li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
859: </ul>
860: <p>
861: The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
862: And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
863: all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
864: <p>
865: Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
866: work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
867: or do some reverse engineering for their products.
868: <p>
1.60 pvalchev 869: But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
870: ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
1.58 deraadt 871: controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
872: may mean we can never get documentation for the
1.70 steven 873: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 874: controllers.
875: The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
876: would not get documentation, either.
877: 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
878: look saintly.
879: <p>
880: Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
881: in OpenBSD, please buy
882: <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
883: RAID cards. And everything
1.88 miod 884: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
1.58 deraadt 885: will just work</a>.
886: <p>
887: And keep pestering the other vendors.
888: <br>
889: </em>
890: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
891: <br>
892: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
893: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
894: Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
895: <br>
896: Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
897: <br>
898: Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
899: treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
900: morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
901: hackologist and adventurer!<br>
902: <br>
903: Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
904: the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
905: vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
906: <br>
907: Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
908: <br>
909: <br>
910: <font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
911: Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
912: <br>
913: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
914: I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
915: <br>
916: <br>
917: <font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
918: They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
919: <br>
920: <br>
921: <font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
922: You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
923: <br>
924: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
925: Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
926: <br>
927: <br>
928: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
929: SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
930: <br>
931: <font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
932: API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
933: <br>
934: <br>
935: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
936: Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
937: there before him
938: lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
939: secure operating system,
940: to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
941: the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
942: <br>
943: Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
944: Puffiana Jones!<br>
945: <br>
946: <br>
947: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 948: <img height=2160 width=380 src="images/38song.gif"><br>
1.58 deraadt 949: </td></tr></table>
950: <p>
951: <em>
952: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
953: The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
954: Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
955: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios.
956: (1-403-233-0350).
957: <br>
958: <br>
959: </em>
960:
961: <hr>
1.44 deraadt 962: <a name=37></a>
963: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
964: 3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
965: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
966: <tr>
967: <td valign="top" width="33%">
968: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]</a><br>
969: OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
970: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
971: <br>
1.76 deraadt 972: 10:08 minutes
973: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
974: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 975: <br>
1.76 deraadt 976: <a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
977: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
1.44 deraadt 978: <br>
979: <br>
980: <em>
981: For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
982: good device support.<br>
983: <br>
984: Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
985: programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
986: Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
987: here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
988: documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
989: drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
990: ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
991: still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
1.62 brad 992: Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
1.46 henning 993: solved in the ethernet market.<br>
1.44 deraadt 994: <br>
995: Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
996: Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
997: devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
998: preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
999: Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
1000: phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
1001: companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
1002: <br>
1003: The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
1004: <br>
1005: Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
1006: We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
1007: could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
1.52 deraadt 1008: not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
1.44 deraadt 1009: particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
1010: everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
1011: <br>
1012:
1013: Want to help us? Avoid
1014: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
1015: Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
1016: Heck, avoid buying even regular
1.48 deraadt 1017: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
1.44 deraadt 1018: to send a message.
1.48 deraadt 1019: If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
1.44 deraadt 1020: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
1021: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
1022: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
1023: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
1024: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
1025: Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
1.52 deraadt 1026: which chipsets into which product.
1.44 deraadt 1027: <br>
1028: <br>
1029: Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
1.56 cloder 1030: Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
1.44 deraadt 1031: the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
1032: What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
1033: Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
1034: distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
1.49 nick 1035: are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
1.44 deraadt 1036: development information for all, but are even going further and
1037: telling their development communities to not work with us at
1038: pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
1039: <br>
1040: </em>
1041: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1042: <br>
1043: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1044: The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
1045: her uncles on the farm,<br>
1046: send out the alarm<br>
1047: and the shit storm flies<br>
1048: E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
1049: With Puffathy inside,<br>
1050: twisting up a ride<br>
1051: to the land of OS<br>
1052: Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
1053: The wicked lawyers dead<br>
1054: The open slippers red are<br>
1055: Hers to take<br>
1056: <br>
1.53 otto 1057: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1058: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1059: <br>
1060: The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
1061: To get yourself back home<br>
1062: Take this yellow road and<br>
1.47 pvalchev 1063: You'll be fine<br>
1.44 deraadt 1064: Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
1065: Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
1066: give Taiwan your biz<br>
1067: You'll never lose<br>
1068: The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
1069: Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
1070: lazy and insane<br>
1071: but they sang OK<br>
1072: <br>
1.53 otto 1073: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1074: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1075: <br>
1076: Finally we're through the trees<br>
1077: The city glows<br>
1078: It's positively green<br>
1079: Pompously the wizard booms<br>
1080: He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
1081: <br>
1082: Go to the west<br>
1083: You must pass the test<br>
1084: For me<br>
1085: Bring me the ride<br>
1086: of the witch I despise<br>
1087: And you'll be free<br>
1088: <br>
1089: You don't need the broom<br>
1090: You don't need the shoes<br>
1091: You don't need the wiz<br>
1092: You will never lose<br>
1093: You have all you need<br>
1094: You always had heart<br>
1095: You always had courage<br>
1096: Did somebody fart?<br>
1097: You always had brains<br>
1098: You answered each call<br>
1.57 deraadt 1099: And this may surprise you<br>
1.44 deraadt 1100: But you've got some balls<br>
1101: So double click heels<br>
1102: and work with Taiwan<br>
1103: And speak to your doggie<br>
1104: You're already gone....<br>
1105: <br>
1106: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1107: <img height=1079 width=380 src="images/37song.gif"><br>
1.44 deraadt 1108: </td></tr></table>
1109: <p>
1110: <em>
1111: Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
1112: Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
1113: Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
1114: Semaka,
1115: guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
1.55 tom 1116: Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.44 deraadt 1117: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at Moxam Studios
1118: (1-403-233-0350).
1119: <br>
1120: <br>
1121: </em>
1122:
1123: <hr>
1.37 deraadt 1124: <a name=36></a>
1125: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
1126: 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
1127: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1128: <tr>
1129: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1130: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.6 or other items]</a><br>
1131: OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1132: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1133: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1134: 4:00 minutes
1135: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
1136: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
1.37 deraadt 1137: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1138: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
1139: <img width=227 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
1.37 deraadt 1140: <br>
1141: <br>
1142: <em>
1143: What is up with some free software providers?!
1144: They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
1145: <p>
1146: While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
1147: has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
1148: we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
1.41 deraadt 1149: to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
1.37 deraadt 1150: going to remember them in the end.
1151: <p>
1152: This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
1153: have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
1154: offerings in the last few years:
1155: <ul>
1156: <li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
1157: developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
1158: called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
1159: code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
1160: we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
1161: stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
1162: told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
1163: replacement effort.
1.41 deraadt 1164: Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
1.37 deraadt 1165: <p>
1166: <li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
1167: packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
1168: that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
1169: were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
1170: and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
1171: one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
1172: <p>
1173: <li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
1174: of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
1175: web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
1176: and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
1.40 jolan 1177: a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
1.51 jcs 1178: doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
1.37 deraadt 1179: protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
1180: </ul>
1181: So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
1182: others who will follow them:
1183: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
1184: replace it.
1185: <br>
1186: </em>
1187: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1188: <br>
1189: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1190: <br>
1191: <br>
1192: Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
1193: Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
1194: Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
1195: Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
1196: <p>
1197: But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
1.38 pvalchev 1198: Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
1.37 deraadt 1199: Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
1200: Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
1201: <p>
1202: <br>
1203: He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
1204: So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
1205: Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
1206: They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
1207: <p>
1208: So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
1209: Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
1210: Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
1211: Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
1212: <p>
1213: <br>
1214: Pond-erosa Puff<br>
1215: wouldn't take no guff<br>
1.41 deraadt 1216: Water oughta be clean and free<br>
1.37 deraadt 1217: So he fought the fight<br>
1218: and he set things right<br>
1219: With his OpenBSD<br>
1220: <p>
1221: <br>
1222: Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
1223: But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
1224: Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
1225: He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
1226: <p>
1227: But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
1228: Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
1229: Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
1230: Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
1231: <p>
1232: <br>
1233: "The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
1234: And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
1.51 jcs 1235: "No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1236: Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
1237: <p>
1238: Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
1239: So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
1240: Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
1241: So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
1242: <p>
1243: <br>
1244: CHORUS<br>
1245: <p>
1246: <br>
1247: So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
1248: The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
1249: Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
1.42 deraadt 1250: Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1251: <p>
1252: So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
1253: Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
1254: They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
1255: Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
1256: <p>
1257: <br>
1258: I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
1.39 mcbride 1259: n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1260: You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
1261: and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
1262: <p>
1263: I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
1264: of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
1.41 deraadt 1265: So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
1266: Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1267: <p>
1268: <br>
1269: CHORUS<br>
1270: <br>
1271: <p>
1272: That's right!<br>
1273: I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
1274: Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
1275: <br>
1276: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1277: <img height=1634 width=263 src="images/36song.gif"><br>
1.37 deraadt 1278: </td></tr></table>
1279: <p>
1280: <em>
1281: Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
1282: Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
1283: Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
1284: Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
1285: <br>
1286: <br>
1287: </em>
1288:
1289: <hr>
1.30 deraadt 1290: <a name=35></a>
1.33 deraadt 1291: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
1292: 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
1.30 deraadt 1293: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1294: <tr>
1295: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 1296: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.5 or other items]</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1297: OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.55 tom 1298: uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
1.30 deraadt 1299: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1300: 5:21 minutes
1301: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
1302: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1303: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1304: <a href="images/Carp.gif">
1305: <img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
1.30 deraadt 1306: <br>
1307: <br>
1308: <em>
1309: A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
1310: and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
1311: themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
1312: redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
1313: Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
1314: <p>
1315: We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
1316: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
1317: and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
1318: firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
1319: them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
1320: sessions. Our
1321: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
1322: protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
1323: it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
1324: network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
1325: firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
1326: the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
1327: <p>
1328: The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
1329: 90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
1330: Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
1331: Redundancy Protocol); on
1332: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
1333: March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
1334: "Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
1335: that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
1336: standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
1337: IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
1338: though there was a patent in the space. Why?
1339: <a href="http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/documents/standards/general-comms/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
1340: There was much deliberation</a>
1341: at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
1342: politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
1343: standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
1344: (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
1345: programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
1346: RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
1347: the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
1348: and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
1349: eh?
1350: <p>
1351: Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
1352: (HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
1353: recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
1354: -- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
1355: claim patent rights.
1356: <p>
1357: On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
1358: lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
1359: its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
1360: impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
1361: implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
1362: Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
1363: small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
1364: against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
1365: members took note of our complaints,
1366: <a href="http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
1367: however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
1368: patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
1369: <p>
1370: A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
1371: to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
1372: and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
1373: backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
1374: avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
1.55 tom 1375: participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
1.30 deraadt 1376: Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
1377: is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
1378: like all others, except against the community.
1379: <p>
1380: Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
1381: benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
1382: <p>
1383: Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
1384: correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
1385: designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
1386: problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
1387: same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
1388: document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
1389: We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
1390: lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
1391: it to use cryptography.
1392: <p>
1393: The combination of
1394: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
1395: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
1396: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
1397: has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
1398: have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
1399: running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
1400: group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
1401: our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
1402: to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
1403: this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
1404: <p>
1405: As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
1406: regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
1407: for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
1408: to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
1409: were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
1410: anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
1411: We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
1412: these decisions, but they declined to reply.
1413: <p>
1414: This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
1415: this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
1416: <br>
1417: </em>
1418: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1419: <br>
1420: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1421: <br>
1422: <br>
1423: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1424: Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
1425: <br>
1426: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1427: A what?
1428: <br>
1429: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1430: A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
1431: <br>
1432: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1433: Well, it's free isn't it?
1434: <br>
1435: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1436: Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
1437: <br>
1438: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1439: What?
1440: <br>
1441: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1442: He is an.... redundancy protocol.
1443: <br>
1444: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1445: CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
1446: <br>
1447: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1448: Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
1449: they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
1450: <br>
1451: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1452: You must be a looney.
1453: <br>
1454: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1455: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
1456: because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
1457: that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
1458: standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
1459: on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
1460: Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
1461: patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
1462: companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
1463: bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
1464: <br>
1465: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1466: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
1467: <br>
1468: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1469: Yes.
1470: <br>
1471: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1472: For a free redundancy protocol?
1473: <br>
1474: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1475: Yes.
1476: <br>
1477: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1478: You are a looney.
1479: <br>
1480: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1481: Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
1482: patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
1483: VRRP.
1484: <br>
1485: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1486: You don't need a license for your VRRP.
1487: <br>
1488: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1.32 otto 1489: I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
1.30 deraadt 1490: <br>
1491: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1492: There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
1493: <br>
1494: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1495: Yes there is!
1496: <br>
1497: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1498: Isn't!
1499: <br>
1500: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1501: Is!
1502: <br>
1503: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1504: Isn't!
1505: <br>
1506: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1507: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
1508: <br>
1509: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1510: This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
1511: out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
1512: <br>
1513: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1514: The man didn't have the right form.
1515: <br>
1516: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1517: What man?
1518: <br>
1519: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1520: Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
1521: <br>
1522: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1523: The looney detector van, you mean.
1524: <br>
1525: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1526: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
1527: <br>
1528: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1529: What redundancy detector van?
1530: <br>
1531: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1532: The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
1533: <br>
1534: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1535: Cizzz-coeee?
1536: <br>
1537: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1538: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
1539: so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
1540: pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
1541: being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
1542: <br>
1543: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1.34 otto 1544: How much did you pay for that?
1.30 deraadt 1545: <br>
1546: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1547: Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
1548: <br>
1549: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1550: What PIX?
1551: <br>
1552: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1553: The PIX I'm replacing!
1554: <br>
1555: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1556: So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
1557: license it?
1558: <br>
1559: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1560: There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
1561: protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
1562: <br>
1563: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1564: No they didn't!
1565: <br>
1566: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1567: Did!
1568: <br>
1569: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1570: Didn't!
1571: <br>
1572: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1573: Did, did, did and did!
1574: <br>
1575: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1576: Oh, all right.
1577: <br>
1578: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1579: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
1580: license?
1581: <br>
1582: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1583: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
1584: <br>
1585: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1586: In that case, give me a Firewall License.
1587: <br>
1588: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1589: A license?
1590: <br>
1591: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1592: Yes.
1593: <br>
1594: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1595: For your firewall?
1596: <br>
1597: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1598: No.
1599: <br>
1600: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1601: No?
1602: <br>
1603: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1604: No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
1605: <br>
1606: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1607: You're off your chump.
1608: <br>
1609: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1610: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
1.43 deraadt 1611: to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
1.30 deraadt 1612: semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
1613: listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
1614: <br>
1615: <br>
1616: A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
1617: <br>
1618: VRRP, philosophically,<br>
1619: must ipso facto standard be<br>
1620: But standard it<br>
1621: needs to be free<br>
1622: vis a vis<br>
1623: the IETF<br>
1624: you see?<br>
1625: <br>
1626: But can VRRP<br>
1627: be said to be<br>
1628: or not to be<br>
1629: a standard, see,<br>
1630: when VRRP can not be free,<br>
1631: due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
1632: <br>
1633: Singing...<br>
1634: <br>
1635: La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
1636: VRRP ain't free.<br>
1637: O P E N B S D<br>
1638: CARP is free<br>
1639: <br>
1640: Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
1641: let through IETF to mean<br>
1642: my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
1643: No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
1644: <br>
1645: Fiddle dee dum,<br>
1646: Fiddle dee dee,<br>
1647: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1648: <br>
1649: 1 1 2,<br>
1650: Tee Hee Hee,<br>
1651: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1652: <br>
1653: My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
1654: bisected accidentally,<br>
1655: one summer afternoon by me.<br>
1656: Redundancy's good when free.<br>
1657: <br>
1658: Redundancy must be free.<br>
1659: Redundancy must be free.<br>
1660: <br>
1661: The End<br>
1662: <br>
1663: Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
1664: <br>
1665: No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
1666: <br>
1667: Geddy must be free.<br>
1668: <br>
1669: <br>
1670: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1671: <img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
1.30 deraadt 1672: </td></tr></table>
1673: <p>
1674: <em>
1675: <font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
1676: Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
1677: <br>
1.34 otto 1678: <font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
1.30 deraadt 1679: Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
1.37 deraadt 1680: Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
1.30 deraadt 1681: Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
1682: Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
1683: <br>
1684: <br>
1685: </em>
1686:
1687: <hr>
1.20 deraadt 1688: <a name=34></a>
1.33 deraadt 1689: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
1690: 3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
1.20 deraadt 1691: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1692: <tr>
1693: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 1694: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 1695: OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1696: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1697: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1698: 3:30 minutes
1699: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
1700: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 1701: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1702: <a href="images/Hood.gif">
1703: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
1.20 deraadt 1704: <br>
1705: <br>
1706: <em>
1707: Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
1.26 deraadt 1708: the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
1.20 deraadt 1709: forces of the draconian government!
1710: <p>
1711: <br>
1712: As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
1713: making release artwork and music which are allegorical
1714: of recent happenings.
1715: <p>
1716: Two years ago we became involved with the University
1717: of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
1718: security research and development .. on things that
1719: we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
1720: wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
1721: DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
1722: credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
1723: a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
1724: promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
1725: was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
1.21 deraadt 1726: than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
1.20 deraadt 1727: forces of government, and needed to be careful.
1728: <p>
1729: A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
1730: and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
1731: they also aggressively backed out of contractual
1732: obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
1.67 jolan 1733: this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
1.20 deraadt 1734: because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
1.55 tom 1735: newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
1.20 deraadt 1736: making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
1737: theft of oil.
1738: <p>
1739: The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
1740: DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
1741: <p>
1742: "As a result of the DARPA review of the
1743: project, and due to world events and the evolving
1744: threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
1745: the Government on April 21 advised the University
1746: to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
1747: the project."
1748: <p>
1749: That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
1750: We had lost financial support, but the release of the
1751: statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
1752: of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
1753: <p>
1754: Since the termination came near natural contract
1755: termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
1756: than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
1757: stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
1758: we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
1.61 grunk 1759: proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
1.20 deraadt 1760: "Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
1761: developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
1762: <p>
1763: We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
1764: we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
1765: of Robin Hood.
1766: </em>
1767: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1768: <br>
1769: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1770: <br>
1771: Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
1772: Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
1773: He had found the crusades<br>
1774: were an endless charade<br>
1775: So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
1776: <br>
1777: <br>
1778: One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
1779: Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
1780: Clever chums they did find<br>
1781: other fish of their kind<br>
1782: Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
1783: <br>
1784: <br>
1785: Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
1786: The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
1787: With CD's and their freedom<br>
1788: for to share online<br>
1789: And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
1790: <br>
1791: <br>
1792: So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
1793: and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
1794: Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
1795: to the teaming schools<br>
1796: Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
1797: <br>
1798: <br>
1799: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
1800: They called it "BSD"!<br>
1801: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
1802: So raise up your glass and<br>
1803: three cheers to the Funny<br>
1804: Fish for never running<br>
1805: and making something good!<br>
1806: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
1807: <br>
1808: <br>
1809: Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
1810: The Hood's a bad ball<br>
1811: Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
1812: He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
1813: Think he's a hero?<br>
1814: Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
1.24 deraadt 1815: He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
1.20 deraadt 1816: Read the Wanted poster<br>
1817: of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
1818: We gettin' back the booty<br>
1819: or we take away your worms too<br>
1820: <br>
1821: <br>
1822: Yo! Word to the classes<br>
1823: Put on your glasses<br>
1824: I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
1825: Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
1826: He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
1827: I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
1828: who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
1829: And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
1830: happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
1831: No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
1832: and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
1833: <br>
1834: <br>
1835: Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
1.25 deraadt 1836: The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
1.20 deraadt 1837: And took back all the booty<br>
1838: Puff intended for the poor<br>
1839: The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
1840: <br>
1841: <br>
1842: Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
1843: And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
1844: He loaded all the loot<br>
1845: to give it back and big surprise<br>
1846: He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
1847: <br>
1848: <br>
1849: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
1850: They called it "BSD"!<br>
1851: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
1852: So raise up your glass and<br>
1853: three cheers to the Funny<br>
1854: Fish for never running<br>
1855: and making something good!<br>
1856: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
1857: <br>
1858:
1859: <br>
1860: <br>
1861: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1862: <img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
1.20 deraadt 1863: </td></tr></table>
1864: <p>
1865: <em>
1866: Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
1867: Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
1868: <br>
1869: Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
1870: <br>
1871: Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
1.55 tom 1872: Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
1.20 deraadt 1873: <br>
1874: Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
1875: Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
1876: <br>
1877: </em>
1878:
1.23 jose 1879: <br>
1880: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 1881: <a name=33></a>
1.33 deraadt 1882: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
1883: 3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 1884: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1885: <tr>
1886: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 1887: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1888: OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1889: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1890: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1891: 4:00 minutes
1892: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
1893: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1894: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1895: <a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
1896: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
1.12 deraadt 1897: <br>
1898: <br>
1.14 deraadt 1899: <em>
1.69 deraadt 1900: Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
1901: face some pretty crazy challenges.
1.12 deraadt 1902: <br>
1.69 deraadt 1903: This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
1904: we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
1905: request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
1906: III processors. We want documentation, because
1907: these are the fastest processors with a per-page
1908: eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
1909: our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
1910: the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
1911: this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
1.36 deraadt 1912: mode.<br>
1913: <br>
1914: And it is going to be faster...<br>
1.12 deraadt 1915: </em>
1.11 deraadt 1916: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1917: Deep through the mists of time<br>
1918: Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
1919: Back to the age of darkness<br>
1920: Black was the protocol<br>
1921: <p>
1922: A King ruled the web with fear<br>
1923: Spilling the blood of men<br>
1924: Then from the ocean came<br>
1925: Puff the Barbarian<br>
1.17 deraadt 1926: <br>
1927: <br>
1.11 deraadt 1928: Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
1929: Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
1930: Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
1931: Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
1932: <p>
1933: Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
1934: A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
1935: Constraints were slain as well<br>
1936: Hacked his way out to the C<br>
1937: <p>
1938: And there he found<br>
1939: His destiny<br>
1940: Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
1941: "Xor taking care of me"<br>
1942: <p>
1943: Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
1944: "Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
1945: Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
1946: Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
1947: <p>
1948: At the tower Puff appealed<br>
1949: For the wisdom of the One<br>
1950: Denied, his mind did reel<br>
1951: Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
1952: <p>
1953: Broke down the guard<br>
1954: Cause math is hard<br>
1.18 deraadt 1955: Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
1.11 deraadt 1956: All alone and only bones<br>
1957: <p>
1958: Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
1959: Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
1960: And Puff, the land secured<br>
1961: The new King Barbarian!<br>
1962: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1963: <img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
1.11 deraadt 1964: </td></tr></table>
1965: <p>
1966: <em>
1967: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
1968: Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
1969: <br>
1970: Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
1971: drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
1972: </em>
1973:
1974: <br>
1975: <hr>
1.9 millert 1976: <a name=32></a>
1.33 deraadt 1977: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
1978: 3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 1979: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1980: <tr>
1981: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 1982: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1983: OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1984: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1985: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1986: 3:00 minutes
1987: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
1988: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1989: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1990: <a href="images/MrPond.gif">
1991: <img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
1.11 deraadt 1992: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.9 millert 1993: Goldflipper<br>
1994: With golden skin<br>
1995: and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
1996: He's the machine<br>
1997: Designed to dismember your life<br>
1998: <p>
1999: And the fish<br>
2000: Protecting us all from the cat<br>
2001: And the cat<br>
2002: Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
2003: <p>
2004: Cyborg on a mission<br>
2005: To do some Puff fishin'<br>
2006: The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
2007: <p>
2008: (short instrumental intro)
1.1 deraadt 2009: <p>
1.9 millert 2010: You'll need some machismo to<br>
2011: catch the spikey one<br>
2012: He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
2013: make the system run<br>
1.1 deraadt 2014: <p>
1.9 millert 2015: But Flip's here for fun<br>
2016: and without a gun<br>
2017: He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
1.1 deraadt 2018: <p>
1.9 millert 2019: She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
2020: such a sexy catch<br>
2021: Is she spying on him or<br>
2022: just a seafood match?<br>
1.1 deraadt 2023: <p>
1.9 millert 2024: Oh double seven<br>
2025: Send me to Heaven<br>
2026: Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
1.1 deraadt 2027: <p>
1.9 millert 2028: The women are fond<br>
2029: She knows what to do<br>
2030: She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
1.1 deraadt 2031: <p>
1.9 millert 2032: Goldflipper is gone<br>
2033: Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
1.11 deraadt 2034: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2035: <br>
2036: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2037: <p>
2038: <em>
1.9 millert 2039: Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.1 deraadt 2040: <br>
1.9 millert 2041: Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
2042: Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
2043: Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
1.1 deraadt 2044: </em>
2045:
2046: <br>
2047: <hr>
1.3 ian 2048: <a name=31></a>
1.33 deraadt 2049: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
2050: 3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2051: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2052: <tr>
2053: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2054: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2055: OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2056: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2057: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2058: 3:00 minutes
2059: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2060: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2061: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2062: <a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
2063: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2064: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2065: BSD fight buffer reign<br>
2066: Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
2067: Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
2068: Puffy rip attacker out<br>
2069: <p>
2070: Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2071: Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2072: <p>
2073: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2074: Über tragic<br>
2075: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2076: <p>
2077: Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
2078: Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
2079: Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
2080: Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
1.11 deraadt 2081: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2082: <p>
2083: Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2084: Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2085: <p>
2086: Chorus
2087: <p>
2088: Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
2089: Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
2090: Penguin lurking under bed<br>
2091: Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
2092: <p>
2093: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2094: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2095: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2096: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2097: <p>
2098: Chorus<br>
1.11 deraadt 2099: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2100: <p>
2101: <em>
1.3 ian 2102: Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
1.1 deraadt 2103: Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
2104: drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
2105: <br>
1.3 ian 2106: Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
1.1 deraadt 2107: <br>
2108: Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2109: </em>
2110:
1.8 millert 2111: <br>
2112: <hr>
1.9 millert 2113: <a name=30></a>
1.33 deraadt 2114: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
2115: 3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2116: <p>
2117: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
2118: <tr>
1.76 deraadt 2119: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 2120: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2121: OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2122: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2123: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2124: 3:00 minutes
2125: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2126: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2127: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2128: <a href="images/Rock.jpg">
2129: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2130: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2131: <br>
2132: <br>
1.9 millert 2133: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
2134: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1.8 millert 2135: <p>
1.9 millert 2136: During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
2137: OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
1.8 millert 2138: <p>
1.9 millert 2139: I'm secure by default<br>
1.8 millert 2140: <p>
1.27 deraadt 2141: They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
1.9 millert 2142: deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
1.8 millert 2143: <p>
1.9 millert 2144: RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
1.8 millert 2145: <p>
1.16 deraadt 2146: Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
1.9 millert 2147: I'm secure by default<br>
2148: stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
1.8 millert 2149: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2150: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.8 millert 2151: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2152: </td></tr></table>
2153: <p>
1.8 millert 2154: <em>
1.9 millert 2155: By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
2156: <br>
2157: Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
1.35 nick 2158: John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
1.9 millert 2159: <br>
2160: Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
1.8 millert 2161: <br>
1.9 millert 2162: Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
1.8 millert 2163: </em>
2164:
1.1 deraadt 2165: <hr>
1.79 deraadt 2166: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="OpenBSD"></a>
2167: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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1.79 deraadt 2169:
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2171: </html>
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