[2024-10-12]

Open Scholastics
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I am quite late to the party but I had so much fun listening
to prof. Corey Stephan and his _Summa Tetraodontiae: Thomas
Aquinas Explores OpenBSD's Medieval Orderliness_ talk he gave
on BSDCan 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uTBkdQpxZo

Professor's thesis is that OpenBSD has distinct scholastic
character.  It strives for proper coding and orderly design
providing simple tools for (almost) complete desktop and
different types of server.

While the talk title refers to our favourite Puffy fish
someone suggested even more hilarious title
_Summa Theo-logiae_.  I guess not only OpenBSD users get
the joke.

Comparing description of medieval worldview with God on top
of the pyramid, angels below, humans even more below, right
above animals and other creatures, with OpenBSD development
model with (again) Theo on top was also flawless.

If you wanna spend an idle hour go for this video.

For me it was a delight because I started to use OpenBSD
during the same period I converted to Catholicism. I did
not make the connection with scholasticism but it makes
great sense to me.

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