Reading the statement by the Darpa representative carefully is important. It could also be interpreted that they don't want to fund someone who has a political view that is different than that of the U.S.
The representative never said that DARPA's viewpoint was that terrorist states were using open source. She said:
"...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."
This doesn't imply that the U.S. thinks that open source is a terrorist tool. It just states that Darpa's view and I think largely because of Theo's comments they want nothing to do with this project.
Theo should be ashamed of himself for using his position as the project leader as a platform for his political views. It undermines the efforts of everyone else who worked on the project.
It's the same thing as a movie star using their position as a pulpit. No one cares.
"A Breakup Is Too Harsh And will keep us from doing what we do best--innovating." If Steve Balmer says this one more time I'm just going to start screaming.
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Reading the statement by the Darpa representative carefully is important. It could also be interpreted that they don't want to fund someone who has a political view that is different than that of the U.S.
The representative never said that DARPA's viewpoint was that terrorist states were using open source. She said:
"...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."
This doesn't imply that the U.S. thinks that open source is a terrorist tool. It just states that Darpa's view and I think largely because of Theo's comments they want nothing to do with this project.
Theo should be ashamed of himself for using his position as the project leader as a platform for his political views. It undermines the efforts of everyone else who worked on the project.
It's the same thing as a movie star using their position as a pulpit. No one cares.
"A Breakup Is Too Harsh And will keep us from doing what we do best--innovating." If Steve Balmer says this one more time I'm just going to start screaming.