DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding (US military shuns BSD)

[Barnaby W. Füi]

From: Theo de Raadt (deraadtcvs.openbsd.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:59:54 CDT

I have received a quote from a reporter who I've talked to for one of
the articles linked all over the place. He has received the following
statement from the DARPA spokeswoman (703-696-2404,
jwalker@darpa.mil). It's below. I could not make this up.

> I wanted to update you on the situation with the Univ of
> Penn. project. As a result of the DARPA review of the project, and
> due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly
> capable nation-states, the Government on April 21 advised the
> University to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of the
> project.

I'm utterly stunned. This might become another story. I have also
forwarded this to the ACLU people who've contacted me.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

From: Theo de Raadt (deraadtcvs.openbsd.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:59:54 CDT

I have received a quote from a reporter who I've talked to for one of
the articles linked all over the place. He has received the following
statement from the DARPA spokeswoman (703-696-2404,
jwalker@darpa.mil). It's below. I could not make this up.

> I wanted to update you on the situation with the Univ of
> Penn. project. As a result of the DARPA review of the project, and
> due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly
> capable nation-states, the Government on April 21 advised the
> University to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of the
> project.

I'm utterly stunned. This might become another story. I have also
forwarded this to the ACLU people who've contacted me.

I linked to that already

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: addragyn
What mission?

Better software.

The simplistic irony is the US military is by nature tasked with protecting the US constitution and the First Amendment is...

Financially it's ridiculous. A few million isn't a drop in the military budget and since BSD came out of a public university and has matured relatively well it's assinine to not continue investing in it. Especially in today's technological climate. The .gov or even .mil could easily get BSD to a place where it meant better security for America and probably cost savings too.

I believe TCP/IP, developed on a BSD system, was made with ARPA/DARPA money.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

From: Theo de Raadt (deraadtcvs.openbsd.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:59:54 CDT

I have received a quote from a reporter who I've talked to for one of
the articles linked all over the place. He has received the following
statement from the DARPA spokeswoman (703-696-2404,
jwalker@darpa.mil). It's below. I could not make this up.

> I wanted to update you on the situation with the Univ of
> Penn. project. As a result of the DARPA review of the project, and
> due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly
> capable nation-states, the Government on April 21 advised the
> University to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of the
> project.

I'm utterly stunned. This might become another story. I have also
forwarded this to the ACLU people who've contacted me.

I linked to that already

Whoops

Well, I missed it, other people were bound to miss it too

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

From: Theo de Raadt (deraadtcvs.openbsd.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:59:54 CDT

I have received a quote from a reporter who I've talked to for one of
the articles linked all over the place. He has received the following
statement from the DARPA spokeswoman (703-696-2404,
jwalker@darpa.mil). It's below. I could not make this up.

> I wanted to update you on the situation with the Univ of
> Penn. project. As a result of the DARPA review of the project, and
> due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly
> capable nation-states, the Government on April 21 advised the
> University to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of the
> project.

I'm utterly stunned. This might become another story. I have also
forwarded this to the ACLU people who've contacted me.

I linked to that already

Whoops

Well, I missed it, other people were bound to miss it too

No doubt. Just more conservative isolationist bull. Let's give Linux a bunch of money, that's a US based software project right?