I’m hurriedly throwing together a talk for NYCBUG on 1 April, and so had to disinter the best sentence I have ever written.
All of those books, and my best work isn’t in any of them. For April Fools’ Day 2003, Dan Langille and I wrote an article about how the United Nations were forcibly merging FreeBSD and NetBSD to form FretBSD. The world was different 23 years ago. The US had just attacked Iraq on a made-up excuse and we felt our tiny part of the world needed a laugh.
Why did we not include OpenBSD? We did.Theo de Raadt could not be reached for comment. While Theo’s home has been surrounded, UN peacekeeper troops have yet to storm the building. UN spokesmen insist that the siege is going according to plan, however, and Theo is expected to be available for integration in the new combined BSD at some date in late 2023. Of the two hundred eighty-nine casualties suffered by the UN troops at this time, the commanding officer insists that they were caused by a rampaging Canadian moose. Daniel Hartmeier, previously of the OpenBSD Project, insists that OpenBSD has no weapons of moose destruction.
My career is obviously downhill from here, but NYCBUG is streaming “What’s Changed Since The Last Time I Came this Way – a talk that was supposed to be about OpenZFS” and will archive it for later.