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. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
