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The article missed:

1) W^X protections

2) ASLR

3) Stack canaries

4) strlcpy

5) OpenSSH!

6) Heap guard pages

7) Software NX

8) Etc.

Maybe project PAX invented some of those, but massive deployment was in OpenBSD first. Well if you can call them massive..

I think you missed the point of the article.

Probably.

Edit: Yes, I missed it.

OpenSSH is a fork of the original SSHv1 written by a Finnish guy.

Because the license changed and said guy started expecting to be able to extort money out of people.

While the OpenBSD guys can be obnoxious twats at times, they were definitely in the right when they forked the OpenSSH code.

Actually someone else forked the code, and openbsd forked that because they wanted to rush out a release.