Frases de Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt ; é um engenheiro de software em Calgary, Alberta, Canadá. É o fundador e líder dos projetos OpenBSD e OpenSSH, e foi um dos membros que participou da fundação do projeto NetBSD. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Maio 1968
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Theo de Raadt: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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.”

[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]

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

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]

“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.”

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.”

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.”

[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.”

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.”

[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.”

[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.

“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.”

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.”

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

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

[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]

“c++ is a pile of crap”

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