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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:25:47 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor
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On Fri, July 10, 2015 11:48 am, Mike wrote:
> On 7/10/2015 12:43 PM, Carmel NY wrote:
>> I wonder why they choose OpenBSD over FreeBSD?
>>
>> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150708134520&mode=expanded&count=27
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> Probably is related to:
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> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150603090420
>

With all my scepticism I would more consider that as an excuse, implying
the reason may be something like this:

http://slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-To-Have-Backdoored-OpenBSDs-IPSEC-Stack

(I didn't say exactly this, I said something like this...) So, I'm
actually quite happy they didn't choose FreeBSD ;-)

Valeri

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