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<i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
Project Goals
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Obviously, each developer working on OpenBSD has their own aims
and priorities, but it is possible to classify the goals we all share:

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<li>Provide the best development platform possible.  <a href="anoncvs.html">
    Provide full source access to developers and users, including the
    ability to look at CVS tree changes directly</a>.
    Users can even look at our source tree and changes
    <a href="https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb">directly on the web!</a>
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<li>Integrate good code from any source with <a href="policy.html">acceptable
    licenses</a>.
    ISC or Berkeley style licences are preferred, the GPL is not acceptable
    when adding new code, NDAs are never acceptable.
    We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY
    PURPOSE, with no restrictions.
    <strong>We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage
    companies to use whichever pieces they want to.</strong>  There are
    commercial spin-offs of OpenBSD.
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<li>Pay attention to <a href="security.html">security problems and fix
    them before anyone else does</a>. (Try to be the #1 most
    secure operating system.)
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<li><a href="crypto.html">Greater integration of cryptographic software.</a>
    OpenBSD is developed and released from Canada and due to Canadian
    law it is legal to export crypto to the world (as
    <a href="http://www.efc.ca/pages/doc/crypto-export.html">
    researched by a Canadian individual</a> and as
    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180128032722/http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ECL.html">
    documented in the Export Control list of Canada</a>).
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<li>Track and implement standards (ANSI, POSIX, parts of X/Open, etc.)
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<li>Work towards a very machine independent source tree.
    <a href="plat.html">Support as many different systems and hardware
    as feasible.</a>
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<li>Be as politics-free as possible; solutions should be decided on the
    basis of technical merit.
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<li>Focus on being developer-oriented in all senses, including holding
    developer-only events called <a href="hackathons.html">hackathons</a>.
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<li>Do not let serious problems sit unsolved.
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<li>Make a release approximately every six months.
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<h2 id=funding>Project Funding</h2>

See our <a href="donations.html">Donations Page</a>.

<h2>Where do our developers live?</h2>

This map approximates where our developers live.  We will attempt to update it
occasionally, but please don't count on that.

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