Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadtis a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and was also a founding member of the NetBSD project...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth19 May 1968
people able exciting
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.
crap
C++ is a pile of crap.
beer ideas results
[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.
technology people vision
I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.
hate people microsoft
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.
designed earlier felt systems
I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.
communication leader trying
I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.
goal making-money vendors
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.