I can't believe a single word I hear out of that non-U.S.A.-only BSD camp until all those God-awful Mounties of Canada's drug district are sobered up and chained to the front bench in church every Sunday. Do I need a vanity plate and a couple of traffic citations for free software? Do I need to conceal all my Google searches from these people? Not that I begrudge Theo DeRaadt; on the contrary, I enjoy my privacy and I'd much prefer to come and go as I please without being tracked by all the Flock cameras, automated facial recognition software and license plate readers and followed and harassed by corrupt cops, pimps and drug lords everywhere I go.
I need free software that isn't crippled and just works without excessive tinkering, which was and hopefully still is much of what comprises OpenBSD's goals and objectives. It's a tool. Life is brief and troublesome. I have only so much time and money to hobby with any one thing, and I've got a million other things to do, and a million other people working hard to ruin things for me. Sorry. I've got to cope with meddlesome and ingratiating busybodies, home-wreckers, car-trashers and life-ruiners just like everybody else. On February 22, 2026 8:03:12 AM PST, Thomas de Grivel <[email protected]> wrote: >Come on this free and open source software is worth millions and it >keeps getting better, let's keep the obfuscated haters away ! > >On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM Andre Buskvekster ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear UDENIX and Alfredo, >> >> For me the aura of Theo is rather of defender and protector. >> >> The present exchange makes me proud to be an OpenBSD user. >> >> With great honor, >> Andre >> > > >-- > Thomas de Grivel > https://www.kmx.io >
