I remember walking around with Theo in SunnySide after he got kicked out of NetBSD, talking about code openness and code quality, and his making a decision to eat ramen for a year or so to make this happen.
Congrats! - a On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Neat now OpenBSD and I share the same birthday :-) > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:11:00AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Mickey's calendar is not telling the truth. > > > > There problem is there are a few things which happened in the days > > beforehands (13th, 14th, 17th) as the decision to setup a repository > > started being taken. It took a few days to get things imported just > > right. Machines were slow back in those days, too. > > > > There are teeny artifacts of those attempts, for instance in > > ChangeLog.1 you can see the import attempts (I think on the 13th cvs > > was crashing because of some large files in the repository). > > > > The repository we use today is marked Oct 18, 1995 throughout, as > > the 1.1 revision is many files. Many other things are that way too. > > > > For a project so large, how else should we date it. First time I used > > the name OpenBSD? Date the DNS record was allocated? Date web page went > > up? Date other developers got accounts? Or should we set the date based > > on some previous conversation with the NetBSD guys? > > > > So, with that said, > > > > CVSROOT: /cvs > > Module name: src > > Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/10/14 09:06:10 > > > > Modified files: > > usr.bin/calendar/calendars: calendar.openbsd > > > > Log message: > > assume niklas's dating for openbsd birth > > > > > > CVSROOT: /cvs > > Module name: src > > Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/10/14 09:09:25 > > > > Modified files: > > usr.bin/calendar/calendars: calendar.openbsd > > > > Log message: > > doh! it was a wednesday. and fix the time as well then > > > > > > And that is: > > > > Oct 18 OpenBSD born, Wednesday 08:37:01 GMT, 1995 > > > > > > It's more important that we agree ;)