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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'.”

Theo de Raadt

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Money , Hope , Guy

“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

“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