Theo de Raadt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Theo de Raadt
Occupation	Software Engineer
Date Of Birth	May 19, 1968(1968-05-19)
Age	56
Birthplace	Pretoria
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Taurus

Theo de Raadt Biography

Theo de Raadt is one of the most popular and richest Software Engineer who was born on May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

Theo de Raadt is the eldest of four children to a Dutch father and a South African mother, with two sisters and a brother. Concern over the mandatory two-year armed forces conscription in South Africa led the family to emigrate to Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 1977. In 1983, the largest recession in Canada since the Great Depression sent the family to the Yukon. Prior to the move, De Raadt got his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20, which was soon followed by an Amiga. It is with these computers that he first began to develop software. In 1992, he obtained a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary.

The first NetBSD source code repository was established on March 21, 1993 and the initial release, NetBSD 0.8, was made in April 1993. This was derived from 386BSD 0.1 plus the version 0.2.2 unofficial patchkit, with several programs from the Net/2 release missing from 386BSD re-integrated, and various other improvements. In August 1993, NetBSD 0.9 was released, which contained many enhancements and bug fixes. This was still a PC-platform-only release, although by this time work was underway to add support for other architectures.

Theo de Raadt Net Worth

Theo de Raadt is one of the richest Software Engineer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Theo de Raadt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Theo de Raadt (/ˈ θ iː oʊ d ɛ ˈ r ɔː t / ; Dutch: [ˈteː.joː dəˈraːt] ; born May 19, 1968) is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and was also a founding member of NetBSD. In 2004, De Raadt won the Free Software Award for his work on OpenBSD and OpenSSH.

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After De Raadt stated his disapproval of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in an April, 2003 interview with Toronto’s Globe and Mail, a multi-million-dollar US Department of Defense grant to the University of Pennsylvania’s POSSE project was cancelled, effectively ending the project. Funding from the grant had been used in the development of OpenSSH and OpenBSD, as well as many other projects and was to be used to pay for the hackathon planned for May 8, 2003. Despite money from the grant already having been used to secure accommodations for sixty developers for a week, the money was reclaimed by the government at a loss and the hotel was told not to allow the developers to pay the reclaimed money to resecure the rooms. This resulted in criticism among some that the US military held an anti-free speech attitude. The grant termination was, however, not as bad a blow as some portrayed it. The project’s supporters rallied to help and the hackathon went on almost as planned. The funding was cut mere months before the end of the grant, further fueling the speculations regarding the situation surrounding the grant’s termination.

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Thomas Ranked on the list of most popular Software Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Theo de Raadt celebrates birthday on May 19 of every year.

In April 2007, De Raadt was involved in a controversy involving the use of GPL code from the Linux bcm43xx driver in the BSD bcw driver. Linux developers accused the BSD community of infringing GPL code, but De Raadt denied infringement, arguing that the BSD driver was not “released”. He also maintained that the conflict was not about GPL, but the way Linux developer Michael Buesch handled the situation. To Buesch’s email, he responded: