1) Hi Theo, thank you for your availability. Can you tell us something about you? How are you? What's your work? What do you do in your life and your sparetime? What are your hobbies?
I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system. I have some
hobbies, mostly to do with getting away from the computers entirely.
2) Everybody know that you're the OpenBSD and OpenSSH GURU and creator, one of most famous and used secure operating system nowaday. Why you created them? What did you need many years ago from os world when you created OpenBSD? What inspired you to write from scratch OpenBSD and OpenSSH?
I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality. The primary goal of a vendor is to make money. In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.
I guess it was later on that I came to realize that most security issues are simply a result of low quality. In OpenBSD and OpenSSH, and everything else, we therefore work very much on quality.
good quote
You were so wise to only quote the two questions he actually answered. The rest of the interview sounds like he was overworked or generally unwilling to answer questions from people from another galaxy, that are answered in the FAQ already, some of them even with comments indicating they don't want to be asked this question (cf. question 3 (where he stopped cooperating) and 13 of the interview):
New users frequently want to know whether OpenBSD is superior to some other free UNIX-like operating system. That question is largely unanswerable and is the subject of countless (and useless) religious debates. Do not, under any circumstances, ask such a question on an OpenBSD mailing list. [...]
1.10 - Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?
This question is often asked in exactly this manner -- with no explanation of what the asker means by "desktop". The only person who can answer that question is you, as it depends on what your needs and expectations are. [...]
These are the questions an average user compatible magazine will ask, however..
overworked
he really sounds overworked lol