On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:57:11PM -0800, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> 
> The House voted Thursday to provide $800 million in grants over
> the next five years to colleges and research groups to protect
> the nation's computers against hackers.
> 

$800M ?

Subject: [EUG-LUG:1535] Re: Sun's motivation
From: Jacob Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> (I
> personally think FreeBSD handles load better, but lacks the level of SMP
> support, filesystem sophistication, ACLs, complete multi-threading, etc)

The govt. (DARPA) gave some money for security R&D to the TrustedBSD and
FreeBSD projects.  FreeBSD 5 is supposed to have big improvements in all
those areas.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-269644.html
http://opensource.nailabs.com/news/20010709-cboss.html
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=572

$800M ... wtf?  Fat cats and bureaucrats.

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