Because in this day and age, there’s no one else doing what OpenBSD is doing?

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Theo de Raadt wrote:

"The first thing to recognize about OpenBSD is that there are about 80
developers and we do OpenBSD for ourselves only. Lots of other people use
OpenBSD, but we use it for ourselves. It’s just for ourselves–and that
means I want OpenBSD to run on everything I’ve got. I want OpenBSD to work
no matter what things come along in the future. This means that we have to
have an outside community that will help us with supporting new devices and
new technologies. We can’t be too ‘fringe.’ So that means we have to
have a
user community. But we have a user community only because it benefits us,
ourselves.

Then along come all of our users, and it turns out that many of our users
are much like us; they have the same needs as us. We don’t particularly
care that they have the same needs, but it’s sort of cool.

The result is that we end up with additional support because of them. Some
of them write device drivers, or some of them create pressure against
vendors and then things become free. And in the end, the whole goal is that
we can keep on running on stuff that is completely open so that we can see
it so that we can check it.

In this day and age, there’s no one else doing what we’re doing. FreeBSD
is
not doing this; they’re incorporating binary device drivers all the way
through their tree now when it’s more convenient. They’re saying
convenience over freedom. The Linux people are now the kings of loadable
device drivers, from all sorts of vendors. If OpenBSD stops doing this, I
would basically bet that within five years from now there wouldn’t be
anybody trying to write a completely free operating system because it would
not be possible."

reference:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1415548-interview-theo-de-raadt-on-industry-a
nd-free-so
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*Because in this day and age, there’s no one else doing what OpenBSD is
doing?*


I wonder what Theo de Raadt would say about it.

Thank you