Last night my 20-month old daughter spontaneously said “OpenBSD,” without any prompting, and without repeating anything I’d said. Well, sort of.

Charlie has a plush Beastie doll that her daddy got her from FreeBSD.org or some such before she was even born. See, that’s the BSD mascot’s name. B-S-D... “Beastie”, get it? (BTW, I can no longer find them for sale online, just some ugly beanie version. <sigh>)

Anyhow, she was playing with Beastie, and was trying to pull off the tag that’s sewn onto his butt, an activity which she roughly refers to as “opening” a thing (pulling anything apart is “open”). So consequently, as she was doing this, she was telling me “I open Beastie.” OpenBSD. :-)

/jonathan