Theo de Raadt Quotes
born 1968 Canada
Theo de Raadt (May 19 1968) is a Canadian computer security expert, programmer, a founder of NetBSD and the founder of OpenBSD.
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Also known as: De Raadt, Theo
Random Theo de Raadt quote
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This is a software monopoly but at least it was written by people who care about security, so it's not like Microsoft's monopoly.
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.
Low code quality keeps haunting our entire industry. That, and sloppy programmers who don't understand the frameworks they work within. They're like plumbers high on glue.
But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
It's the little things that make Freedom become Not Freedom.
...you are being the usual slimy hypocritical asshole... You may have had value ten years ago, but people will see that you don't anymore.
It's terrible, everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'
Our solutions provide something that is 100% right, all the time. That is the idea. The cobbled together gunk never does [...] It's unfortunate the application-level people are all caught up in cobble, cobble, cobble and just never learn how to evolve.
You'd be safer using Windows than the code which was just deleted.
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Quite frankly, SSE's alignment requirement is the most utterly retarded idea since eating your own shit.
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Don't tell anybody I said that.
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Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent Multics in a browser. (paraphrasing Herny Spencer's famous quote)
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The kernel is a harsh mistress.
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35 commits an hour? That's pathetic!
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Last version before removal: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/Attic/theo.c?rev=1.125
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Hystory of revisions (may be related to the date when they were said): http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/Attic/theo.c
Some selected examples
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