Personal blog of a developer and BSD user covering OpenBSD, retro DOS programs, the Spleen bitmap font, and small technical projects.
HN links it for the Spleen font, which OpenBSD adopted as its console font, and for posts on OpenBSD and DOS file transfers.
The OpenBSD people in general and De Raadt specifically are probably the best-known objectors to Apache-2[1–4], among other things because they hold that Apache-2 is too broad to be a copyright license and thus has to be interpreted as a contract instead.
I don’t know if they’re right, but their arguments did shift my opinion in their direction.
Corporate lawyers seem to love it, though, because of the mutually-assured-patent-destruction clause.
[1]: http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html (see corresponding section)
[2]: https://marc.info/?i=91077.1475036864%20()%20cvs%20!%20openbsd%20!%20org (De Raadt rants on openbsd-misc, discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126178810)
[3]: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300.html (Kettenis objects on behalf of OpenBSD on llvm-dev)
[4]: https://www.cambus.net/the-state-of-toolchains-in-openbsd/ (OpenBSD gives up on staying with old LLVM)
Sounds like how Telize started. Look at the first[1] article from the author. He decided to bring the service down after being contacted by a malware research company that his service is used by ransomware.
Would you like to risk someone contacting you and possibly threatening with legal action because they would believe you might have taken part in their data being held hostage?
There was a story floating around with the curl author receiving emails like that just because he showed up in credits. I personally would pull the plug from a free service immediately if I found out it was used by malware and I would have no accountability for the person I was enabling with my software.
[1] - http://www.cambus.net/adventures-in-running-a-free-public-api/
I don't know if the situation has changed since Spleen was first released [0], but I would desperately hope so as it is ridiculous to default in 2019 to a non-internationalized font, without support for even Latin-based Central European characters, let alone non-Latin alphabets.
> Another short term goal is to add support for Central European languages, with Polish being the immediate priority.
Other than that, looks good and I'm digging the French literary references.
[0]: https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
I used OpenBSD in production at my previous job (an ISP), in a few different roles. Lots of ISPs use OpenBSD for various purposes.
HSMs from nCipher used to run on top of (a slightly modified, IIRC) OpenBSD. Just as JunOS (the OS on (some) Juniper network devices) runs on FreeBSD, I'm sure there are many other commercial products built on OpenBSD as well -- we just don't hear about them very much.
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Related (from the same author as this submission): "Why OpenBSD?" [0].
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[0]: https://www.cambus.net/why-openbsd/
The text sample on the author's site[1] is from Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris, so we can deduce the font's name also refers not to the organ but the other meaning of the word "spleen":
"Melancholy with no apparent cause, characterised by a disgust with everything."
[1] https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
I'm sad that nobody added a picture of how it actually looks.
I believe this is the relevant font: https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
edit: I'm very stupid and apparently missed the link to this same blog post in TFA. Leaving this here in case someone else makes the same mistake.