"The OpenBSD Foundation is pleased to announce today it has completed its organization as a Canadian federal non-profit corporation and is ready for public interaction. The OpenBSD Foundation has been formed for the purpose of supporting the OpenBSD project, and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS. In particular it will act as a single point of contact for persons and organizations requiring a legal entity to deal with when they wish to support OpenBSD in any way."
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Member since:2005-06-29
Yeah, why not. I also bought a CD set two years ago when they desperately asked for money. I was never able to install it, even with the help of the leaflet, the online documentation and the rather unfriendly bitter community of the mailing list. I still have the CD set somewhere in the dust. I don't see much future in this project, especially that alternatives are secure enough for most people and companies. I don't know how long this project will survive.
Member since:2005-07-06
There's is nothing worse that rude people when you need help. I had been using the IO language to write a library of generic object storage in a SQLite database. I was using 200605XX version, all worked well. I had written thousands of lines of code, it was pretty huge and very flexible.
Then I upgraded to the 200607XX version... it stopped working. It use to scan the modules and preload the necessary built-in references, but that behavior changed so that you had to explicitly reference them to load them before instantiation.
So I posted a note asking if this was intentional or if it was a bug and one of the developers literally started swearing at me and calling me names?!?!?! I was like "What the heck?! I was just asking a yes or no question" and he's telling me to f*ck off.
So I got mad and threw away all that code and removed IO from my system. Not the best response on my part after all that work (dipstick that I am).
But just because he was having a really bad day, he spread it to me and everyone else on the board that day.
Member since:2006-05-30
Yeah, why not. I also bought a CD set two years ago when they desperately asked for money. I was never able to install it, even with the help of the leaflet, the online documentation and the rather unfriendly bitter community of the mailing list. I still have the CD set somewhere in the dust. I don't see much future in this project, especially that alternatives are secure enough for most people and companies. I don't know how long this project will survive.
Are projecting your own incompetence on a project you
might be able to participate from?
I used OpenBSD once in a while and of course, it's not shiny, brushed steel as my Mac OS X. But it's perfectly to develop and run secure server applications.
Regards
Member since:2006-07-15
Member since:2005-08-18
"I was never able to install it, even with the help of the leaflet, the online documentation and the rather unfriendly bitter community of the mailing list. I still have the CD set somewhere in the dust."
And here we enter bullshitland. I have never since I started using OpenBSD (back in the days of 2.8) had a problem with the community. Sure, there are rude people and people who have bad days and give rude replies but that's how life is and that happens on every mailinglist. I've had my head chewed off by Theo on occasion but since I have managed to grow up I can take it for what it is and not let it get to me.
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. Welcome to life.
People do this on their spare time and most people have more interesting things to do with their life than answering the same questions over and over again from people who havent even tried solving the problem themselves. (Come on, how hard is it to use Google?)
Maybe your failure to install OpenBSD reflects more on your competence and ability to read clearly written documentation than it does on OpenBSD.
"I don't see much future in this project, especially that alternatives are secure enough for most people and companies. I don't know how long this project will survive"
Yadda yadda yadda.
Member since:
2006-02-01
Congrats to the OpenBSD community. I personal don't use it but I use FreeBSD and I've always respected and kept a close watch of the going on's over at the OpenBSD camp. I even bought one of the install cd's a while back to help out when the funding was at an all time low.