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DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the change-of-heart dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Huh? by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well, best as I can figure it, Saddam is dead, Iraq is free, Afghanistan is free, Al Qaeda is destroyed, and international terrorism has been eradicated. DARPA has no more need for secure operating systems now that cyber-terrorism threats are no more.

    Meanwhile, in some other part of the country, some contractor for DARPA is placing an order for $5 million worth of Microsoft Office because the damn thing keeps saying it's not activated. Our government really needs to get its head out of its politicians' asses.