Theo de Raadt: Making

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“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.”

Theo de Raadt

[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]

Way , Lying , Future , Cheating

“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?”

Theo de Raadt

[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]

Money , Time

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

Theo de Raadt

[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]

Freedom