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Does an application need to prove it can do what it claims to do before it can be ported to OpenBSD? Seems like a high bar. :-)
by iamatologist 6y ago
Does an application need to prove it can do what it claims to do before it can be ported to OpenBSD? Seems like a high bar. :-)
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoIt's not a high bar, just plain honesty. I remember a while ago someone was promoting a language called v, making many claims of which some turned out completely untrue. This might be a norm in commercial software - some people believe that you can't sell anything if you don't exaggerate - but the open source world in general prefers a more honest approach. Hence many projects always remaining at 0.x release, for example.
- spacemanmatt 6y agoIt is a high bar that makes OpenBSD in security-sensitive roles way more appealing than a distribution with a lower bar. That high bar paid for itself repeatedly when I ran OpenBSD in the late 90s and early 2000s.
- iamatologist 6y agoFair enough.
- tyingq 6y agoThat's true, but not for the ports collection. There's all sorts of software there with historically bad track records in security. That's the point...it's just ports of a bunch of popular software.