> > OpenBSD Founder Theo deRaadt Has Conflict of Interest With AMD
> > By David Marcus, 2007-08-05 03:41:29
> > Section: Technology, Topic:
> >
> > I formerly had a great deal of respect, bordering on admiration, for
> > Theo deRaadt's refusals to compromise his open source principles, even in
> > the face of stiff opposition. Although he has occasionally gone
> > over-the-top, recommended some frankly very dubious changes to OpenBSD,
> > and is regularly arrogant (which is even more annoying because he's so
> > often right!), he's always remained consistent in his devotion to the
> > cause of GNU/Free Software.
> >
> >
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/8/2/15233/84896
>
> Too bad the author of that article is totally lying. Neither I or the
> project have no donation relationship with AMD.
>
> The only donations the project ever got from AMD were three prototype
> AMD64 machines.
>
> Two were given to us before the AMD64 had even shipped to the public,
> so that they could benefit from us running on AMD64 cpus. They were
> desktop machines with Athlon HX processors at 1.6GHz. One is in
> Sweden, the other in Calgary. One nice thing about those machines is
> that the BIOS does no self tests, and therefore boots really really
> fast.
>
> The third machine was a quad-cpu Opteron machine the size of a fridge,
> but that was quite a bit later, and it was surplus to us. I think
> these were called "Melody" machines, or a name similar to that.
>
> I am sure that we've had more hardware donations from Intel. I am
> also sure we've had WAY MORE donations from VIA/Centaur, even yet.
>
> I'd love to know that there have been more donations from AMD. If
> there had been, perhaps we could spend them on a hackathon in the
> future.
>
> It's amazing how people these days can just invent commentary out of
> their ass, and have thousands of people read it and change their bias.
> It's slander, that's exactly what it is, and I ask that the editors
> take that article down and force some sort of apologize for it.
