Hackers Meet Soldiers
by George Peter Staplin and Cameron Laird
03/13/2003

OpenBSD is widely recognized as "one of those other OSes"--an operating 
system available, like Linux, without licensing fee, but with its own 
character distinct from any other OS. Only recently, though, have people 
begun to learn that that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects 
Agency (DARPA) partially funds the Canadian-based OpenBSD project. Why 
is the US military paying ideology-driven foreign hackers? What's the 
effect on development of the OS?

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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html

-- 
John Hebert
System Engineer
http://www.it-group.com


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