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Matt Hildebrand informed the misc@openbsd.org mailing list that he conducted an interview with Theo. Matt asked him questions regarding free and commercial software, software patents and how security plays a part in OpenBSD development.
The complete interview may be found here:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html
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http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/free_forbes/2005/0704/071.html
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I think all of this recent press coverage, Forbes, Epoch Times, KernelTrap, Canadian Television, high-profile users, is tremendous. Mr. DeRaadt in the Epoch Times article stated that one of the reasons that vendors get the lion's share of the attention is because they demand it. Linux as a whole got enormous amounts of press, admittedly by attacking the software company everyone loves to hate, but the perception that Linux was of higher quality persisted beyond the rhetoric. I must admit that there is something very attractive about the "best kept secret" aspect of OpenBSD, but it does not serve users of software very well.
Computing in general is a very complicated business, and that goes doubly for software. Individuals not involved heavily in computing tend to make up their minds about things from what they hear from friends, neighbors and news outlets. Especially with something as mysterious as computing, unless something is so completely useless that an individual is forced to learn more about so as it either fix it or dump it, they will tend to stay with what they have heard/know is a good solution to a problem.
The more attention given to OpenBSD, the more its messages of quality, security and consistency will penetrate into broader segments of the population, and everyone's computing experience will be the better for it.
So, here, here for press coverage of OpenBSD.
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