"Twice a year I get to release the song & lyrics, and write a little commentary on something the project dealt with other [than] the release. Hope you guys enjoy," said OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt, including a link to the latest OpenBSD song [1]. The OpenBSD project maintains a six month release cycle, with the upcoming 4.3 release officially scheduled for May 1st, 2008. Each release includes a song relevant to issues faced by the project during the past six months. The song for the upcoming 4.3 release is titled, "Home to Hypocrisy", with scathing references to some recent postings [2] on the OpenBSD -misc mailing list by Free Software Foundation creator Richard Stallman. In his commentary, Theo explained, "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." He continued, describing the recent confrontation on the OpenBSD -misc mailing list:
"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. [...] 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.
"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."
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@...>
Subject: 4.3 song and lyrics and commentary
[2]Date: Apr 11, 1:08 am 2008
Twice a year I get to release the song & lyrics, and write a little
commentary on something the project dealt with other the release.
Hope you guys enjoy.
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html [3]
From: Todd Alan Smith <tas-misc-openbsd@...>
Subject: Re: 4.3 song and lyrics and commentary
[3]Date: Apr 11, 1:22 am 2008
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
> Twice a year I get to release the song & lyrics, and write a little
> commentary on something the project dealt with other the release.
>
> Hope you guys enjoy.
And that I have! I've already downloaded it and listened to it several
times. Excellent song!
Btw, already that thread was burned into my memory (I was recovering
from back surgery when it took place), but now, with this song, the
thread and the broader issues covered are archived in a different way
for all to remember it by. Good job on the subject selection!
I can't wait for my 4.3 CDs to arrive!
From: Leonardo Rodrigues <leonardovcr2@...>
Subject: Re: 4.3 song and lyrics and commentary
[3]Date: Apr 11, 1:56 am 2008
Yeah, that was a loooong thread. Quite funny too hehe.
It's good to see that the artwork is as good as ever =)
Keep up the good job!
From: Pau <vim.unix@...>
Subject: Re: 4.3 song and lyrics and commentary
[3]Date: Apr 11, 7:42 am 2008
Richard was here (universitat autrnoma de Barcelona) last Monday
http://www.uab.es/anycomputacio/ [4]
I went to his "talk", just out of curiousity.
It was interesting. Not what he said, which was the old same story
(and he dared to do it in Spanish, which made everything worse -my
English is way muuuuch better).
I say it was interesting because gnu/linux was the first thing I
discovered, when I left windows, some... 10? years ago (I was "using"
windows 3.11 last time I did) and I found incredible that you could
tell your computer to do something _you_ wanted.
I found everything amazing, and I became a fanboy of gnu/linux. Later
I saw The Light ;)
Well.. listening to Richard talking about the freedom of code etc, in
the way he did it: arriving 15 minutes later and making ~200 people
wait, burping and belching many times, because he had drunk two
teapots, and he also interrupted the talk asking aloud for a cloakroom
and explicitly asking a prof. to take him to it, not taking into
account that he had talked for more than two hours with long breaks
due to his insufficient expertise in Spanish etc etc... made me
thought of those years when I was a teenager.
I would very probably have loved "his way" (and I have to admit that
it's fine to be a bit rude from time to time to big bosses in general,
if you can afford it, but not to the students). But this time I
didn't.
(gnu)Linux is something like a teenager. It lacks maturity. That
"talk" was a wonderful metaphor of it.
I wonder... probably a bit of publicity of the like (a public talk,
but in a proper way) wouldn't hurt much to OpenBSD. I am almost sure
that it should not be a problem to invite somebody to give such a talk
and I, personally, would be very happy to see it happening...
anyway...
By the way, I love the small butts the nurses that are carrying the madgnu
wear
(in the last panel of the comic strip)
Pau Amaro Seoane
2008/4/11, Leonardo Rodrigues <leonardovcr2@gmail.com>:
> Yeah, that was a loooong thread. Quite funny too hehe.
>
> It's good to see that the artwork is as good as ever =)
> Keep up the good job!
From: nimmermehr <nimmermehr@...>
Subject: Re: 4.3 song and lyrics and commentary
[4]Date: Apr 11, 9:19 am 2008
Just my two cents :
I remember an interview with rms (about two years ago) where he
critisised not only (open/net/free)bsd for shipping non-free software,
but also ubuntu, redhat and others. The only really free distribution
from his point of view is GNU/HURD, but since it will be released
shortly after Duke Nukem Forever, we'll have to stay non-free one or two
more months ;)
So he declared others as non-free at least once... god knows why he
didn't it do more often.
By the way, Puffy lost his clothes when he left the ship ;)
Related links:
- Archive of above thread [4]
