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<h2><font color="#e00000">Release Songs</font></h2><hr>
<p>
Every 6 months the OpenBSD project has the pleasure to release
software on an official CDROM set, with artwork and a matching song.
Ty Semaka (our artist) and Theo borrow and mutate some theme (from a
classical setting, a movie, or some genre) into the fishy world of
Puffy, to describe some event or controversy the project went through
over the previous six months. To match the art released with the CD,
Ty and his friend Jonathan Lewis build the song and bring in
additional hired musicians from around Calgary. Theo then gets the
pleasure (and responsibility) to write a commentary explaining it all.
<p>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="45%">
<a href="#46">4.6: "Planet of the Users"<br>
<a href="#45">4.5: "Games"<br>
<a href="#44">4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"<br>
<a href="#43">4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"<br>
<a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"<br>
<a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"<br>
<a href="#40">4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a> and
<a href="#audio_extra">"OpenVOX" (extra track)</a><br>
<a href="#39">3.9: "Blob!"</a><br>
<a href="#38">3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a><br>
<a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS"</a><br>
<a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a><br>
<a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a><br>
<a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a><br>
<a href="#33">3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a><br>
</td><td valign="top" width="1%">
<br>
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<a href="#32">3.2: "Goldflipper"</a><br>
<a href="#31">3.1: "Systemagic"</a><br>
<a href="#30">3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="#audio_extra">
<img align="left" height=158 width=158 hspace="5" vspace="0" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
</a>
The 3.0 - 4.0 songs are available on an Audio CD celebrating
10 years of OpenBSD releases.
<br>
<br>
An <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
(who really has "had Puffy on his mind") is included which details
the process of making the art and music each release.
<br clear=all>
<a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
Order an Audio CDROM from our International site</a><br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<hr>
<a name=46></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="46.html">
4.6: "Planet of the Users"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.6 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 4.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
2:38 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song46.mp3">(MP3 4.8MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song46.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/PlanetUsers.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/PlanetUsers.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
[Commentary still being written]
<br>
</em>
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<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br>
Welcome to the future<br>
One very rich man<br>
runs the Earth with<br>
one multinational<br>
owns your stuff<br>
and owns your birth<br>
<br>
Everyone is armless<br>
Personal robots<br>
Do it all for you<br>
Sitting on your slug head<br>
One channel TV<br>
never gonna bore you<br>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
Does it sound like a paradise<br>
or a way to die<br>
while alive and a loser<br>
I'm a man from the open past<br>
And I'll never last<br>
on the Planet of the Users<br>
<br>
Everyone is happy<br>
No more government<br>
No more media<br>
Only the Company<br>
Entertains you<br>
while it feeds you<br>
<br>
Soylent Green pap<br>
Eating your friends while<br>
shopping, buying<br>
Stupid applications<br>
Obsolete before you try them<br>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
<br>
Take me back<br>
Take me back<br>
Please<br>
Take me back<br>
<br>
Way back in my time<br>
Open source kept<br>
everyone choosing<br>
People knew the insides<br>
Of devices they were using<br>
<br>
Hackers had a doorway<br>
Now it's locked and<br>
dumbed down so much<br>
One button coma<br>
Stop the future truly outta touch<br>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
<br>
<br>
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<p>
<em>
Written and arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
Vocals by Duncan McDonald, bass guitar by Jonathan Lewis, guitars by
Russ Broom, drums by John McNeil.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=45></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="45.html">
4.5: "Games"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.5 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 4.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
3:29 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song45.mp3">(MP3 6.4MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song45.ogg">(OGG 4.5MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Pufftron.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/Pufftron.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
[Commentary still being written]
<br>
</em>
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<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br>
I love to hate my PC<br>
But now it's not so easy<br>
Just wanna get this job done<br>
But these A.M.L. games are dumb<br>
<br>
You wanna know the truth?<br>
Intel's controlling you<br>
And Microsoft is too<br>
But this is nothing new<br>
<br>
With A.C.P.I.<br>
This endless mess so corporate<br>
Tangles and angles<br>
In what could be straight forward<br>
<br>
Lost connections<br>
Lost my mind<br>
It's such a waste of time<br>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
<br>
Now on the motherboard<br>
Where all my life is stored<br>
Playing with garbage there<br>
With rules so unfair<br>
<br>
Ruled by A.C.P.I.<br>
Whose heart is so corrupted<br>
Forcing us all to play<br>
Our progress interrupted<br>
<br>
Lost connections<br>
Lost my mind<br>
It's such a waste of time<br>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
<br>
Yes I'm a user<br>
And I'm not the only one<br>
I'm not a loser<br>
With help from Puffy Tron<br>
<br>
And we will find it<br>
The pin in all this heartache<br>
Map our devices<br>
And we know what it'll take<br>
<br>
Lost connections<br>
Lost my mind<br>
Oh Ooh Woah end of line<br>
<br>
(bridge)<br>
On and on<br>
Can we all be wrong?<br>
All and all<br>
We are one<br>
Clean the dream<br>
Gone wrong<br>
We are Tron<br>
On and on and on<br>
<br>
Instrumental CHORUS (guitar solo)<br>
<br>
Instrumental pre-chorus<br>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
dumb dumb dumb<br>
<br>
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</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
Theo de Raadt. Synth, drum and bass programming by Jonathan Lewis,
guitar by Russ Broom, vocals by Jonny Sinclair.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=44></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="44.html">
4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.4 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 4.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
3:05 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song44.ogg">(OGG 4.4MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/SourceWars.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="XXX" src="images/SourceWars.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of
the Berkeley Unix distributions for the
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565925823/openbsdA/">
O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"</a>.
We recommend you read his story, entitled
<a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html">
"Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable"</a>
first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here.
Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has
probably not been read by enough people.
<br>
<br>
The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were
not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear.
But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase
of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting
than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which
hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period.
But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so
much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had
lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid?
<br>
<br>
After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had
already been replaced by university researchers and their associates.
So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group)
started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest.
Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX
conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these
rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by
piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs.
Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like
Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more.
<br>
<br>
Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit more careful
checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which
was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source
code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice).
<br>
<br>
Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system
based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories
(basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB.
Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the
lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments
(and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite.
Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for
a lot less than <a href=orders.html>$1000 per copy</a>).
<br>
<br>
The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick,
and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.
<br>
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br>
<center>
<br>
Source Wars<br>
Episode IV<br>
Trial of the BSD Knights<br>
</center>
<br>
Not so very long ago<br>
and not so far away<br>
AT&T made system code<br>
and gave some bits away<br>
<br>
Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it<br>
better, faster, more diverse<br>
This open thing was wonderful<br>
for everyone on Earth<br>
<br>
And then the roaring 90's came<br>
The Empire changed its mind<br>
And good old greed was back again<br>
The geeks were in a legal bind<br>
<br>
The Empire's Unix Lab<br>
sued BSDi from above<br>
The code is free but<br>
only we can sell it bub!<br>
<br>
The University came calling<br>
in full protective mode<br>
and proved the source in Net/2<br>
didn't use the Empire's code<br>
<br>
Then Bostic brought the Empire's books<br>
n' slammed them dandys down<br>
And showed the giant chunks<br>
of BSD code all around<br>
<br>
They didn't even give an ounce<br>
of credit front to back<br>
This broke the license USL<br>
was using to attack<br>
<br>
The case was thrown out by the judge<br>
and "settled" out of court<br>
And UCB was big enough<br>
to take it like a sport<br>
<br>
And to this day the geekfolk say<br>
Now did we win or lose?<br>
They shoulda made 'em reprint<br>
every book with proper dues<br>
<br>
And take out ads in major rags<br>
apologetically<br>
And maybe now it wouldn't be<br>
the same monopoly<br>
<br>
The Empire might have tumbled<br>
down if everybody saw<br>
How greed became so big<br>
they couldn't see that glaring flaw<br>
<br>
But only one community<br>
the one that makes it tick<br>
Is there to fight for everyone<br>
exposing hypocrites<br>
<br>
And OpenBSD is here<br>
to tell the story right<br>
Once again the fight is fought<br>
and kept in shining light<br>
<br>
And may the source be with you<br>
May the Empire fall apart<br>
Ya like that's gonna happen!<br>
But we gotta keep heart!<br>
<br>
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<img width=395 height=1800 src="images/44song.jpg"><br>
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<p>
<em>
Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka.
Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey.
Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=43></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="43.html">
4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.3 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 4.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
4:48 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.mp3">(MP3 8.2MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song43.ogg">(OGG 6.5MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Cryptonaut.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="Cryptonaut" src="images/Cryptonaut.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man
who is a lot like
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/">Naomi Campbell</a>.
<br>
<br>
In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at
Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans
(where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from
his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted
to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from
the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue
and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto
the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane.
After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed
onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few
OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby,
so we have an accurate story of the events.
<br>
<br>
This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us
about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes
it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he
has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone.
He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him
alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
<br>
<br>
We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We
remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a
requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of
free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's
in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful
influence which he could use so falsely.
<br>
<br>
We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our "ports" tree
builds software that is 'found on the net' into packages that
OpenBSD users can use more easily. A scaffold of Makefiles and
scripts automatically fetch these pieces of software, apply
patches as required by OpenBSD, and then build them into nice
neat little tarballs. This is provided as a convenience for
users. The ports tree is maintained by OpenBSD entirely separately
from our main source tree. Some of the software which is fetched
and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.
All the other operating system projects make exactly the same
decision, and provide these same conveniences to their users.
<br>
<br>
Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free.
He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically, yet
he said nothing to the many other vendors who do the same; many of
them donate to the FSF and perhaps that has something to do with it.
Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official
GNU software -- including Emacs -- compiles and runs on Windows.
<br>
<br>
That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some
people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not
follow their own stupid rules.
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br>
<br>
Puffy and the mighty Cryptonauts<br>
Trading with new lands by open C<br>
Corporate monsters, many closing passages<br>
Tempting harpies<br>
13 years of treachery<br>
<br>
<br>
Journey's over, welcome home the heroes<br>
Offering the bounty of their trade<br>
Useful clothing spun from the golden fleece<br>
For the people, free and very strongly made<br>
<br>
<br>
But something's wrong with them<br>
They will not take our free wares<br>
"What's the matter good people?<br>
Why are you so scared?<br>
Why?"<br>
<br>
<br>
Then one brave soul spoke out<br>
"We're not allowed to take your gifts<br>
Hypocrites has spoken<br>
There are many new laws"<br>
<br>
<br>
Hypocrites appears<br>
"Puffy!<br>
You must obey my new rules!"<br>
<br>
<br>
"First rule one dictates<br>
You cannot give your code away"<br>
<br>
<br>
(In Greek) To your health, Nick, great bouzouki player and cool dude.<br>
<br>
<br>
"And rule two dictates<br>
You must give it to me<br>
So I can give it away properly for free"<br>
<br>
<br>
"The list goes on of course<br>
But for traders this is all you need"<br>
<br>
<br>
"This is madness!<br>
He has lost his mind!<br>
This defies the first law of free trade<br>
Rule zero came before this rule one<br>
Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone"<br>
<br>
<br>
Then Hypocrites goes mad.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<img width=395 height=1720 src="images/43song.gif"><br>
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<p>
<em>
Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
Nikkos Diochnos. Vocals and bouzouki by Nikkos Diochnos. Baglama,
second bouzouki, violin, bass, and drum programming by Stelios Pulos,
né Jonathan Lewis. Guitar by Methodios Valtiotis, né Allen Baekeland.
Percussion by Pentelis Yiannikopulos, né Ben Johnson. Recorded, mixed,
and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=42></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="42.html">
4.2: "100001 1010101"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.2 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 4.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
4:40 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.mp3">(MP3 4.0MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song42.ogg">(OGG 6.4MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Marathon.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="Marathon" src="images/Marathon.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do.
This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have
remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software,
that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share
these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open
Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one
would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't
seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects
away from the ideals very quickly.
<p>
Much of any operating system's usability depends on device support,
and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices
available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project
could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or
including binary objects in the operating system for which no source
code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden
inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset
of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about
getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.
<p>
Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals,
we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues,
resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much
recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also
led to other issues.
<p>
We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used
by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often
than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still
properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the
same spirit that they were given in the first place.
<p>
That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our
stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal;
we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more
from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux
projects.
<p>
Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all
codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants
of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the
SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source
into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off
as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution
-- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who
have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself,
not for their agenda.
<p>
The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do
what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We
don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our
image. We are here to have fun doing right.
<p>
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br>
The starting line is nervous<br>
we burst upon the course<br>
Electric is our passion<br>
An open hearted force<br>
<br>
The water's full of dangers<br>
That interrupt the flow<br>
And soon the spirit splinters<br>
as temptation takes its toll<br>
<br>
*Give and get back some<br>
Sharing it all<br>
Path we know best<br>
we're having a ball<br>
Opulent mission<br>
Lost in our passion<br>
You can still choose<br>
If you don't swim to win<br>
you'll never lose*<br>
<br>
One Zero Zero Zero Zero One<br>
<br>
The window is a wall by now<br>
A sieve of sickened holes<br>
The water chicken stealing maps<br>
Mistaking us for foes<br>
<br>
The sun a son of Icarus<br>
Flies too close to itself<br>
Forbidden fruit is blinded<br>
by the toys upon the shelf<br>
<br>
*CHORUS*<br>
<br>
One Zero One Zero One Zero One<br>
<br>
Slow and steady wins they say<br>
but this is not a race<br>
It's not about who takes a prize<br>
for first or second place<br>
<br>
Imaginary rings of brass<br>
Were traded for real goals<br>
The vision and the mission lost<br>
For those with corporate souls<br>
<br>
*Give and get back some<br>
Sharing it all<br>
Path we know best<br>
we're having a ball<br>
Give and get zeros<br>
Give and get ones<br>
Given to you but<br>
Not you to us<br>
Opulent mission<br>
Lost in our passion<br>
You can still choose<br>
If you don't swim to win<br>
you'll never lose<br>
You'll never lose*<br>
<br>
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
<img width=396 height=1876 src="images/42song.gif"><br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed and
mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
Vocals by Duncan McDonnald (www.thegreatgavalan.com). Drums by
John McNeil. Guitar by Jeff Drummond. Bass and keyboards by
Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and Theo de Raadt.
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=41></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
4:19 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
device support.
<p>
Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
weird, or even buggy.
<p>
When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
OpenBSD, either).
<p>
When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
20 years building
<a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
<p>
A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
would be fantastic by now.
<p>
We only ask that
<a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br>
Here's an old story ...<br>
<br>
<br>
Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
We all know the details<br>
Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
some serious loot,<br>
and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
The little guy who<br>
did the best with what he had<br>
<br>
<br>
Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
in moderation<br>
Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
<br>
<br>
If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
never give him the password<br>
If he goes penguin on you,<br>
stop - being - his brother.<br>
When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
So do the best with what you have<br>
<br>
<br>
Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
But unlike Vendors,<br>
he at least keeps the door open<br>
<br>
<br>
Vendors of water that should be free<br>
Look upon their words and despair<br>
Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
then made him better off dead<br>
Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
<br>
<br>
Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
and left us with open source (sores)<br>
sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
for each consecutive cut<br>
But with the salty water of labour<br>
parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
<br>
<br>
It's not whether you're well off<br>
it's where you dig the well<br>
The best the little guy can do is what<br>
the little guy does right<br>
<br>
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
<img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=audio_extra></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
"OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order the OpenBSD audio CD or other items]</a><br>
These are the lyrics for the extra track on the OpenBSD Audio CD.<br>
<br>
4:00 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
<br>
<img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
<br>
<br>
<em>
This is an <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
(who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.
<p>
This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
and music for each OpenBSD release.
Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
<p>
<a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
Order this CDROM from our International site.</a>
<p>
The OpenBSD Audio celebrates the artwork and songs that
have been released with each OpenBSD release. All the
songs from the 3.0 to 4.0 releases are included (plus
one bonus track by Ty Semaka explaining his role in the
development of the art that accompanies OpenBSD releases).
<p>
Includes a 11cm silver-on-clear die-cut wireframe Puffy sticker!
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
Be Open<br>
Be Vocal<br>
Stay Open<br>
Stay Vocal<br>
<br>
(repeat)<br>
<br>
OpenBSD<br>
<br>
Twice a year,<br>
me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
and take strips out of liars.<br>
He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
on the systematicalifornication<br>
and a license application<br>
is a fishybomination<br>
and a random allocation<br>
got a copywritten melanoma<br>
sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
OK stop.<br>
I get it.<br>
Some asshole lied.<br>
<br>
And then he says,<br>
"The crashorama villaination<br>
lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
in the cyber cider documation<br>
universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
cohabitationizizingation"<br>
OK stop.<br>
I get it.<br>
<a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
but he was only open for business.<br></a>
I get it.<br>
Where's my pencils?<br>
Bring me my mic!<br>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
Be Open<br>
Be Vocal<br>
Stay Open<br>
Stay Vocal<br>
<br>
(repeat)<br>
<br>
Then he has another beer and<br>
gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
And squeeze in five concepts<br>
every time, every song!<br>
And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
if I draw the device wrong!<br>
"It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
<br>
(beat boxin')<br>
<br>
<br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=40></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.0 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 4.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
2:40 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
sells to continue our development goals.
<br>
<br>
While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
write and record a song that also matches the theme.
<br>
<br>
Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
<br>
<br>
This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
<br>
<br>
OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
under such duress that much of our code gets written.
<br>
<br>
We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
other developers.
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br>
<br>
<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Uru, uru achim!<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
uru achim!<br>
uru achim!<br>
OpenBSD!<br>
<br>
<br>
(circus torture)<br>
<br>
<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Humppa negala<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Humppa neranenah<br>
Venismechah<br>
<br>
Uru, uru achim!<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
uru achim!<br>
uru achim!<br>
OpenBSD!<br>
<br>
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
<img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Based on the traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=39></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.9 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 3.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
4:00 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Blob.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
<br>
<br>
Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
<br>
<br>
But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
at any time.<br>
<br>
<li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
<br>
<li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
<br>
<li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
<br>
<li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
<br>
<li>
Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
less portable.<br>
<br>
<li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="30%">
<br><br><br>
Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
when we found him on the beach,<br>
there was nothin' shady<br>
you could bounce him on your knee<br>
like a ba-ba-ball<br>
and his first little word was adorable<br>
<br>
He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah<br>
Blah!<br>
<br>
<br>
Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
<br>
<br>
Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
He could get your motor runnin'<br>
with a drop of goo<br>
He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
But by the time he graduated<br>
Blob was business slime!<br>
<br>
He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah<br>
<br>
<br>
He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
<br>
<br>
Now everybody had it<br>
they was drivin' around<br>
They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
for convenience now<br>
Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
<br>
<br>
He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah<br>
<br>
<br>
It's linkin' time!<br>
<br>
<br>
Now it was out of control<br>
n' fishy's came to depend<br>
on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
<br>
<br>
He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
<br>
<br>
Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
And he battled the Blob<br>
who had crossed the line<br>
He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
<br>
<br>
But it was too late!<br>
Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
He wants your video!<br>
Ya he wants your net!<br>
He wants your drive!<br>
He wants it all!!<br>
<br>
<br>
Somebody help us!<br>
Noooooooo!<br>
NVIDIA!<br>
Intel!<br>
Atheros!<br>
3-Ware!<br>
VIA!<br>
ATI!<br>
Broadcom!<br>
TI!<br>
Myricom!<br>
HighPoint!<br>
Adaptec!<br>
Mylex!<br>
ICP Vortex!<br>
and IBM!<br>
Takin' over the world!<br>
<br>
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
<img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
Theo de Raadt.
Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
Drums by Jim Buick.
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=38></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
4:24 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
Instrumental version
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Jones.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
their devices.
<p>
Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
for the
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
cannot solve these issues.
<p>
The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
"quality" to show its head.
<p>
RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
<br>
<ul>
<li>Redundancy
<li>Repair
</ul>
You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
<p>
Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
<p>
Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
<p>
And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
the AMI controllers.
<p>
There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
basic RAID management:
<ul>
<li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
<li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
<li>Being able to silence the buzzer
<li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
</ul>
<p>
The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
<p>
Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
or do some reverse engineering for their products.
<p>
But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
may mean we can never get documentation for the
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
controllers.
The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
would not get documentation, either.
3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
look saintly.
<p>
Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
in OpenBSD, please buy
<a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
RAID cards. And everything
<a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
will just work</a>.
<p>
And keep pestering the other vendors.
<br>
</em>
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<font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
<br>
Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
<br>
Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
hackologist and adventurer!<br>
<br>
Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
<br>
Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
there before him
lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
secure operating system,
to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
<br>
Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
Puffiana Jones!<br>
<br>
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<p>
<em>
Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
<br>
<br>
</em>
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<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
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OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
10:08 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
good device support.<br>
<br>
Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
solved in the ethernet market.<br>
<br>
Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
<br>
The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
<br>
Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
<br>
Want to help us? Avoid
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
Heck, avoid buying even regular
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
to send a message.
If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
which chipsets into which product.
<br>
<br>
Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
development information for all, but are even going further and
telling their development communities to not work with us at
pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
<br>
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The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
her uncles on the farm,<br>
send out the alarm<br>
and the shit storm flies<br>
E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
With Puffathy inside,<br>
twisting up a ride<br>
to the land of OS<br>
Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
The wicked lawyers dead<br>
The open slippers red are<br>
Hers to take<br>
<br>
Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
<br>
The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
To get yourself back home<br>
Take this yellow road and<br>
You'll be fine<br>
Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
give Taiwan your biz<br>
You'll never lose<br>
The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
lazy and insane<br>
but they sang OK<br>
<br>
Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
<br>
Finally we're through the trees<br>
The city glows<br>
It's positively green<br>
Pompously the wizard booms<br>
He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
<br>
Go to the west<br>
You must pass the test<br>
For me<br>
Bring me the ride<br>
of the witch I despise<br>
And you'll be free<br>
<br>
You don't need the broom<br>
You don't need the shoes<br>
You don't need the wiz<br>
You will never lose<br>
You have all you need<br>
You always had heart<br>
You always had courage<br>
Did somebody fart?<br>
You always had brains<br>
You answered each call<br>
And this may surprise you<br>
But you've got some balls<br>
So double click heels<br>
and work with Taiwan<br>
And speak to your doggie<br>
You're already gone....<br>
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<p>
<em>
Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
Semaka,
guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
<br>
<br>
</em>
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<a name=36></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
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OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
4:00 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
<img width=227 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
What is up with some free software providers?!
They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
<p>
While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
going to remember them in the end.
<p>
This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
offerings in the last few years:
<ul>
<li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
replacement effort.
Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
<p>
<li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
<p>
<li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
</ul>
So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
others who will follow them:
Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
replace it.
<br>
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<br>
<br>
Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
<p>
But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
<p>
<br>
He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
<p>
So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
<p>
<br>
Pond-erosa Puff<br>
wouldn't take no guff<br>
Water oughta be clean and free<br>
So he fought the fight<br>
and he set things right<br>
With his OpenBSD<br>
<p>
<br>
Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
<p>
But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
<p>
<br>
"The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
"No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
<p>
Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
<p>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
<p>
<br>
So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
<p>
So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
<p>
<br>
I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
<p>
I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
<p>
<br>
CHORUS<br>
<br>
<p>
That's right!<br>
I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
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<p>
<em>
Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
<br>
<br>
</em>
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<a name=35></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
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OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
<br>
5:21 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Carp.gif">
<img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
<p>
We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
sessions. Our
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
<p>
The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
Redundancy Protocol); on
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
"Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
though there was a patent in the space. Why?
<a href="http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/documents/standards/general-comms/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
There was much deliberation</a>
at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
(Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
eh?
<p>
Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
(HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
-- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
claim patent rights.
<p>
On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
members took note of our complaints,
<a href="http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
<p>
A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
like all others, except against the community.
<p>
Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
<p>
Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
it to use cryptography.
<p>
The combination of
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
<p>
As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
these decisions, but they declined to reply.
<p>
This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
<br>
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<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
A what?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
Well, it's free isn't it?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
What?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
He is an.... redundancy protocol.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
You must be a looney.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
Alright, alright, alright. A license.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Yes.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
For a free redundancy protocol?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Yes.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
You are a looney.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
VRRP.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
You don't need a license for your VRRP.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Yes there is!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
Isn't!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Is!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
Isn't!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
The man didn't have the right form.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
What man?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
The looney detector van, you mean.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
What redundancy detector van?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
Cizzz-coeee?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
How much did you pay for that?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
What PIX?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
The PIX I'm replacing!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
license it?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
No they didn't!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Did!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
Didn't!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Did, did, did and did!
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
Oh, all right.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
license?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
In that case, give me a Firewall License.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
A license?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Yes.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
For your firewall?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
No.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
No?
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
You're off your chump.
<br>
<font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
<br>
<br>
A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
<br>
VRRP, philosophically,<br>
must ipso facto standard be<br>
But standard it<br>
needs to be free<br>
vis a vis<br>
the IETF<br>
you see?<br>
<br>
But can VRRP<br>
be said to be<br>
or not to be<br>
a standard, see,<br>
when VRRP can not be free,<br>
due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
<br>
Singing...<br>
<br>
La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
VRRP ain't free.<br>
O P E N B S D<br>
CARP is free<br>
<br>
Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
let through IETF to mean<br>
my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
<br>
Fiddle dee dum,<br>
Fiddle dee dee,<br>
CARP and PF are free.<br>
<br>
1 1 2,<br>
Tee Hee Hee,<br>
CARP and PF are free.<br>
<br>
My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
bisected accidentally,<br>
one summer afternoon by me.<br>
Redundancy's good when free.<br>
<br>
Redundancy must be free.<br>
Redundancy must be free.<br>
<br>
The End<br>
<br>
Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
<br>
No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
<br>
Geddy must be free.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
<font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
<br>
<font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
<br>
<br>
</em>
<hr>
<a name=34></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
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<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
3:30 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Hood.gif">
<img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
forces of the draconian government!
<p>
<br>
As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
making release artwork and music which are allegorical
of recent happenings.
<p>
Two years ago we became involved with the University
of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
security research and development .. on things that
we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
forces of government, and needed to be careful.
<p>
A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
they also aggressively backed out of contractual
obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
theft of oil.
<p>
The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
<p>
"As a result of the DARPA review of the
project, and due to world events and the evolving
threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
the Government on April 21 advised the University
to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
the project."
<p>
That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
We had lost financial support, but the release of the
statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
<p>
Since the termination came near natural contract
termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
"Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
<p>
We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
of Robin Hood.
</em>
</td><td valign="top" width="3%">
<br>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
<br>
Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
He had found the crusades<br>
were an endless charade<br>
So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
<br>
<br>
One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
Clever chums they did find<br>
other fish of their kind<br>
Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
<br>
<br>
Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
With CD's and their freedom<br>
for to share online<br>
And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
<br>
<br>
So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
to the teaming schools<br>
Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
<br>
<br>
<em>Chorus:</em><br>
They called it "BSD"!<br>
And "Open" because it's always free<br>
So raise up your glass and<br>
three cheers to the Funny<br>
Fish for never running<br>
and making something good!<br>
And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
<br>
<br>
Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
The Hood's a bad ball<br>
Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
Think he's a hero?<br>
Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
Read the Wanted poster<br>
of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
We gettin' back the booty<br>
or we take away your worms too<br>
<br>
<br>
Yo! Word to the classes<br>
Put on your glasses<br>
I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
<br>
<br>
Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
And took back all the booty<br>
Puff intended for the poor<br>
The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
<br>
<br>
Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
He loaded all the loot<br>
to give it back and big surprise<br>
He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
<br>
<br>
<em>Chorus:</em><br>
They called it "BSD"!<br>
And "Open" because it's always free<br>
So raise up your glass and<br>
three cheers to the Funny<br>
Fish for never running<br>
and making something good!<br>
And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
<br>
Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
<br>
Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
<br>
Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
<br>
</em>
<br>
<hr>
<a name=33></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
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<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
4:00 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
<img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
<br>
<br>
<em>
Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
face some pretty crazy challenges.
<br>
This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
III processors. We want documentation, because
these are the fastest processors with a per-page
eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
mode.<br>
<br>
And it is going to be faster...<br>
</em>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
Deep through the mists of time<br>
Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
Back to the age of darkness<br>
Black was the protocol<br>
<p>
A King ruled the web with fear<br>
Spilling the blood of men<br>
Then from the ocean came<br>
Puff the Barbarian<br>
<br>
<br>
Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
<p>
Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
Constraints were slain as well<br>
Hacked his way out to the C<br>
<p>
And there he found<br>
His destiny<br>
Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
"Xor taking care of me"<br>
<p>
Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
"Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
<p>
At the tower Puff appealed<br>
For the wisdom of the One<br>
Denied, his mind did reel<br>
Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
<p>
Broke down the guard<br>
Cause math is hard<br>
Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
All alone and only bones<br>
<p>
Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
And Puff, the land secured<br>
The new King Barbarian!<br>
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<img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
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<p>
<em>
Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
<br>
Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
</em>
<br>
<hr>
<a name=32></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
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<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
3:00 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/MrPond.gif">
<img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
Goldflipper<br>
With golden skin<br>
and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
He's the machine<br>
Designed to dismember your life<br>
<p>
And the fish<br>
Protecting us all from the cat<br>
And the cat<br>
Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
<p>
Cyborg on a mission<br>
To do some Puff fishin'<br>
The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
<p>
(short instrumental intro)
<p>
You'll need some machismo to<br>
catch the spikey one<br>
He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
make the system run<br>
<p>
But Flip's here for fun<br>
and without a gun<br>
He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
<p>
She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
such a sexy catch<br>
Is she spying on him or<br>
just a seafood match?<br>
<p>
Oh double seven<br>
Send me to Heaven<br>
Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
<p>
The women are fond<br>
She knows what to do<br>
She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
<p>
Goldflipper is gone<br>
Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
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<br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
<br>
Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
</em>
<br>
<hr>
<a name=31></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
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<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
3:00 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
<img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
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BSD fight buffer reign<br>
Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
Puffy rip attacker out<br>
<p>
Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
<p>
Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
Über tragic<br>
Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
<p>
Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
<p>
Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
<p>
Chorus
<p>
Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
Penguin lurking under bed<br>
Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
<p>
Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
<p>
Chorus<br>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
<em>
Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
<br>
Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
<br>
Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
</em>
<br>
<hr>
<a name=30></a>
<h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
<p>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]</a><br>
OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
<br>
3:00 minutes
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
<br>
<a href="images/Rock.jpg">
<img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
</td><td valign=top width="33%">
<br>
<br>
Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
<p>
During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
<p>
I'm secure by default<br>
<p>
They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
<p>
RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
<p>
Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
I'm secure by default<br>
stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
<br>
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<br>
</td></tr></table>
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By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
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Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
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Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
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Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
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