<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Hello,</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">It's a great pleasure to announce that OpenBSD 5.2 is getting close to be released.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">See the release page:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/52.html">http://www.openbsd.org/52.html</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Naturally, open source software isn't written without money.
Money is needed to buy development</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">machines, pay for bandwidth, and fund Theo de raadt to work full-time on OpenBSD.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">You probably don't use OpenBSD, but you use at least 1 component derived from OpenBSD: OpenSSH.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">OpenSSH (ssh) is maintained by the OpenBSD team, and we put a lot of effort into making it works</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">on all the cisco, junipers, linux, Oracle, IBM, HP, <Another big vendor> gear out there. Figures show that</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">90% of the internet uses openssh !</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div
style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Unfortunately, we receive very little funding from those companies. Therefore we're relying on end-users</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">to support our efforts.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The CDs cost $50 USD, and donations are also welcomed:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order">https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html">http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Meanwhile, you can already enjoy the
geeky openbsd song for the upcoming release:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://mirror.servihoo.net/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song52.ogg">song52.ogg</a></div></div></div></body></html>