Theo de Raadt: Quotes about people

“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.”

Theo de Raadt

[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]

People , Future

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

Theo de Raadt

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]

Love , Hate , People

“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.”

Theo de Raadt

People , Problem , Thinking

“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.”

Theo de Raadt

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]

People , Idea , Learning , Time

“…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.”

Theo de Raadt

[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

People

“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.”

Theo de Raadt

[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.

People

“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.”

Theo de Raadt

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

People