I remember walking around with Theo in SunnySide after he got kicked out
of NetBSD, talking about code openness and code quality, and his making a
decision to eat ramen for a year or so to make this happen.

Congrats!

 - a


On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Marco Peereboom wrote:

> Neat now OpenBSD and I share the same birthday :-)
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:11:00AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Mickey's calendar is not telling the truth.
> >
> > There problem is there are a few things which happened in the days
> > beforehands (13th, 14th, 17th) as the decision to setup a repository
> > started being taken.  It took a few days to get things imported just
> > right.  Machines were slow back in those days, too.
> >
> > There are teeny artifacts of those attempts, for instance in
> > ChangeLog.1 you can see the import attempts (I think on the 13th cvs
> > was crashing because of some large files in the repository).
> >
> > The repository we use today is marked Oct 18, 1995 throughout, as
> > the 1.1 revision is many files.  Many other things are that way too.
> >
> > For a project so large, how else should we date it.  First time I used
> > the name OpenBSD?  Date the DNS record was allocated?  Date web page went
> > up?  Date other developers got accounts?  Or should we set the date based
> > on some previous conversation with the NetBSD guys?
> >
> > So, with that said,
> >
> > CVSROOT:        /cvs
> > Module name:    src
> > Changes by:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005/10/14 09:06:10
> >
> > Modified files:
> >         usr.bin/calendar/calendars: calendar.openbsd
> >
> > Log message:
> > assume niklas's dating for openbsd birth
> >
> >
> > CVSROOT:        /cvs
> > Module name:    src
> > Changes by:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005/10/14 09:09:25
> >
> > Modified files:
> >         usr.bin/calendar/calendars: calendar.openbsd
> >
> > Log message:
> > doh! it was a wednesday. and fix the time as well then
> >
> >
> > And that is:
> >
> >     Oct 18  OpenBSD born, Wednesday 08:37:01 GMT, 1995
> >
> >
> > It's more important that we agree ;)

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