Theo de Raadt Quotes

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.

Theo de Raadt

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Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt (; Dutch: [ˈteː.joː dəˈraːt]; born May 19, 1968) is a South African-born software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects and was also a founding member of NetBSD. In 2004, De Raadt won the Free Software Award for his work on OpenBSD and OpenSSH.

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Theo de Raadt

As I read the news, it comes to me that these days companies in the United States appear to have more rights than either individuals or nonprofit organizations, so I am not surprised.

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Theo de Raadt

I think it is entirely a U.S. Trend, and you should look at how the legal system has changed in your country over the last few years.

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Theo de Raadt

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.

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Theo de Raadt

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.

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Theo de Raadt

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.

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Theo de Raadt

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.

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Theo de Raadt

.. 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.

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Theo de Raadt

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

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The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

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I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

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I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

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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.

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