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Theo de Raadt ist ein in der Open-Source-Gemeinde bekannter Programmierer und Kernel-Hacker.

De Raadt lebt in Calgary, Kanada, wo er an der University of Calgary Informatik studierte.

De Raadt war 1993 zusammen mit Chris Demetriou, Alan Glass und Charles Hannum einer der Gründer des NetBSD-Projektes. 1995 trennte er sich aufgrund verschiedener Differenzen vom NetBSD-Core-Team und gründete das OpenBSD-Projekt, das heute gerne von OpenBSD-Benutzern als das „sicherste Betriebssystem der Welt“ bezeichnet wird. Außerdem ist er Leiter des OpenSSH-Projektes.

De Raadt lehnt Vertraulichkeitsvereinbarungen im Software-Entwicklungsprozess ab. Auch bemühte er sich intensiv und zum Teil erfolgreich darum, dass bei Betriebssystemen unter einer freien Lizenz auch die Treiber-Software als Schnittstelle zu physischen Geräten ausschließlich freien Lizenzen unterliegen solle – was bei vielen Linux-Distributionen nicht üblich sei. Da zumeist Unternehmen aus Taiwan seinen Bestrebungen, Treiber-Software einer freien Lizenz zu unterwerfen, eher nachkamen als Vertreter von unter anderem Intel und Broadcom, warb er dafür, WLAN-Geräte aus Taiwan zu bevorzugen.

Auf der FOSDEM 2005 wurde ihm der FSF Award 2004 von Richard Stallman verliehen. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Mai 1968
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“So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.”

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“I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways — securing software — and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.”

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Quoted in U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker, Akin, David, 2004-04-06, 2007-01-10, Globe and Mail, http://web.archive.org/web/20040815134728/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd, 2004-08-15 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd,
on receiving a monetary grant from the US military.

“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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[Interview: Staying on the cutting edge, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html, 2004-10-08, 2007-09-15, The Age]

“The only way to make it clear to him that he should not come here to our lists in the future, is to teach him a hard lesson, and that is done by continually re-adding cc's back to him -- because the mails talk about him -- even when his friends come our mailing lists and delete the his address from the cc list. Like this message, which adds him back in. Richard, you are a lying cheating hypocrite.”

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[Re: Real men don't attack straw men, MARC, openbsd-misc (Mailing list), http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119761726816776, 2007-12-14, 2017-04-20]

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

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Quoted in [Is Linux For Losers?, Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinfrastructure/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html, Lyons, Daniel, 2005-06-16, 2007-01-10]

“I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.”

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“Our solutions provide something that is 100% right, all the time. That is the idea. The cobbled together gunk never does […] It's unfortunate the application-level people are all caught up in cobble, cobble, cobble and just never learn how to evolve.”

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Comparing CARP and pfsync, the OpenBSD redundant firewall solution, to a collection of shell scripts
[Re: using OpenBSD instead of F5 Big-IP (was Cisco routers), MARC, openbsd-misc (Mailing list), https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111163273330909, 2005-3-24, 2017-12-26]

“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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Quoted in U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker, Akin, David, 2004-04-06, 2007-01-10, Globe and Mail, http://web.archive.org/web/20040815134728/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd, 2004-08-15 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd,

“[…] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.”

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[slashdot, http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/00/12/11/1455210/theo-de-raadt-responds]

“You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.”

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on the statement "Virtualization seems to have a lot of security benefits"
[Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but .., MARC, openbsd-misc (Mailing list), https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582, 2007-10-23, 2017-10-31]

“…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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[Re: Real men don't attack straw men, MARC, openbsd-misc (Mailing list), http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119767647608165, 2007-12-14, 2017-04-20]
To Richard Stallman

“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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[OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security, Gedda, Rodney, Computerworld, http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0, 2004-10-09, 2007-01-10]
speaking about OpenSSH.

“Hardware donations do not come from vendors who use OpenSSH on parts of their stuff. They come from individuals. The hardware vendors who use OpenSSH on all of their products have given us a total of one laptop since we developed OpenSSH five years ago. And asking them for that laptop took a year. That was IBM.”

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Quoted in Staying on the cutting edge, Varghese, Sam, 2004-10-08, 2007-01-10, The Age http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html,

“The world doesn't live off jam and fancy perfumes - it lives off bread and meat and potatoes. Nothing changes. All the big fancy stuff is sloppy stuff that crashes. I don't need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. That's not as pretty, and just as hard.”

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Six-monthly releases: OpenBSD shows the way, Varghese, Sam, 2009-12-08, iTWire, 2016-02-16 http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way?start=1,

“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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Quoted in [Is Linux For Losers?, Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinfrastructure/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html, Lyons, Daniel, 2005-06-16, 2007-01-10]
on the quality of the code of the Linux kernel

“Well, we do not do this so that other players can make profit. We've actually been doing this for a long time and I do not know of anyone who specifically makes money off OpenBSD. They may, at best, save some money by not having to re-engineer the same software that we have already written. It is not exactly that we are letting them make a profit, but that we are doing a proper job and saving someone else from having to do the same job in a corporate setting. In our eyes, that is perhaps a waste of planet-wide engineer talents, rewriting the same thing over and over. Why can’t we just get it right once?”

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[Interview: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software, http://en.epochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html, 2005-07-05, 2007-01-10, The Epoch Times]

“It's the little things that make Freedom become Not Freedom.”

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[Theo, de Raadt, Re: no more apache updates, MARC, openbsd-misc (Mailing list), http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=108655228511377, 2004-06-06, 2017-04-20]

“The kernel is a harsh mistress.”

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“c++ is a pile of crap”

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cat-v.org c++ considered harmful http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/
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