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DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn?
Starrider writes "It seems the DARPA grant for OpenBSD and for University of Pennsylvania has been cancelled (?) immediately and without warning. See the full story in Theo's email and on deadly.org." Theo is left to only speculate why funding was suddenly pulled. One also has to wonder what this means for the University of Pennsylvania, since they were also in for a piece of the pie.
Serves him right for speaking out against Operation Iraqi Freedom (tm).
Whatever befalls you serves you right for speaking out against Free Speech.... And all things Free as in Speech....
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Did you actually READ the "beer drinking" article?
The very last line, paraphrased, is "Theo was careful to point out that the group paid for it's own beer."
Everything I read about/from Theo suggests he is a class act. If anyone is throwing dung here, it's you my friend.
bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS panda 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
First of all, the USA do not "welcome foreigners". I spent _six_ months waiting for a visa when I was invited as a researcher for the Air Force. As a serviceman of an air force of a European Union and NATO country, I find this appaling.
Second, your remark about the "USA and its Western Ethics" are just BillCrap. The USA do not have ethics at all, just the ideas and goals of the government of the day. Like the Bush administration, where certain people at the top are more interested in providing contracts for rebuilding Iraq to their friends in the corprate world, and who are now accusing another country in the Middle East of possesing WMDs yet leaving those in Israel untouched. You talk about US ethics again and I'll just have to laugh at you more.
What does this have to do with a grand for OpenBSD?
Nothing at all. Zero. Zilch. Go buy a cookie.
Fact: DARPA was interested in OpenBSD because if what it can do, or because of how it disallows others to do things that _hurt_ the USA. So how does it help the USA to withdraw funding of a project that benefits them?
Do you think it matters whether a "good" US patriot (I wanted to say: Nationalist (God Don't Bless America)), or Red Chin or a recalcitrant Canadian writes that code? _NO_!!! Either way the USA benefits from that work.
So fuck DARPA, and fuck the USA nationalists.
Remember, this is the same guy who's "unwavering" beliefs included taunting clueless users... which got him kicked off the last li'l *BSD project he was on.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Theo's fat unfiltered trap finally has cost him something big. Maybe he will finally learn to be a little more diplomatic.
Canada, because it opposed the irresponsible activities of the unelected Bush administration, is clearly responsible for Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" (which, oddly, no one can seem to find) and therefore must not be funded. The same for Theo, even though his work has immeasurably aided US institutions who are seeking to create secure compter systems. Unless they march in lockstep with Fuehrer Bush, they're e-vile and must be destroyed. Sieg Heil!
You cannot, reasonably, do everything in your power to piss off the very people that are giving you support(specifcally, money in this case) and make them like it!! Remember that Theo was thrown out of the NetBSD project for being an asshole!?!? This is just par for the course.