Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt is a South African-born software engineer who lives in Calgary, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects and was also a founding member of NetBSD. In 2004, De Raadt won the Free Software Award for his work on OpenBSD and OpenSSH.
"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 doesnt get built."
"The world doesnt 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 dont need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. Thats not as pretty, and just as hard."
"Low code quality keeps haunting our entire industry. That, and sloppy programmers who dont understand the frameworks they work within. Theyre like plumbers high on glue."
"Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix."
"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."
"Its the little things that make Freedom become Not Freedom."
