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Old 26th July 2014
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Originally Posted by cravuhaw2C View Post
OpenBSD developers have lofty ideals but putting food on the table is the overarching primary concern.
This is factually wrong. OpenBSD licensing model is copy right and copy left licenses GPL for example are avoided by all means.


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Debian, Ubuntu and Redhat do not have funding issues. OpenBSD should ask themselves why.
Red Hat is fortune 500 company publicly traded on the NY stack change. Canonical (Ubuntu) as well. Debian is the largest hobby project on the world. Yet amount of innovation which came out of 100 something OpenBSD developers exceed these three companies combined together.

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Note: by "wider acceptance among the public", I'm thinking along the lines of "having sufficient funds to keep the OpenBSD going for a few more years".
You do not have sufficient funds to support OpenBSD. People who have like Google have no problems installing OpenBSD. Recently the offer all their in house modification of OpenSSL back to LibreSSL and change the license to the same one as OpenBSD.
30 000 elevators in U.S. run OpenBSD as do majority of network switches and Internet infrastructure. That seem like a pretty good adoption rate in my book.

Last edited by Oko; 3rd December 2014 at 04:44 AM.