> How come the university acting as proxy, got so much of OpenBSDs DARPA > grant? What was the justification?
Graft, influence trading, and patronage are institutionalized in the relationship between universities, research grants, and the government in the US to roughly the same level as anywhere else in the world. The finances just aren't talked about as much in the US because the people who benefit from it know to keep their mouths shut. Upon the remainder of the population, the other the coin is a very fast growing but hidden inflation. But your media is playing the same game with your government. The word "propoganda" has fallen out of vogue. Anyways, in that instance the a few University people got around 50% because of their connections, and did nothing except a few bits of paperwork -- except for one grad student (who worked very hard, but was already doing so beforehands). Oh, but the university staff sure worked hard in the last few days trying to steal payments back from openbsd people who were on contract, when the Department of Defence got upset.
