On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 02:22 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The U.S. military's research agency cut off grant money for helping to develop a secure, free operating system after a top programmer made anti-war statements to a major newspaper.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency halted the contract less than two weeks after The Globe and Mail of Toronto published a story in which programmer Theo de Raadt was quoted as saying he was "uncomfortable" about the funding source.
"I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built," de Raadt told the newspaper.
Within a few days, de Raadt said he received an e-mail from Jonathan Smith, a computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the grant's lead researcher, expressing discomfort over the statements.
Not enough bugs in OpenBSD. Not enough back doors in OpenBSD. "If you are using OpenBSD, you are computing with Osama." --Tim May