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Media Coverage
April, 2003
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+ [ITALIAN] La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD, WebNews online,
+ April 24, 2003.
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+ Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout + the free software community". + Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to + other articles. ++ +
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+ Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments,
+ New York Times, April 24, 2003.
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+ Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks: + Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy + "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the + anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It + also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and + hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely + sympathetic to the American military's current role in world + affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position + and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told. +
+ Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ... + the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project + known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on: + "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun." ++ +
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+ Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On,
+ Wired, April 24, 2003.
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+ Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com + article above. + Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said. + "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and + wasting them." ++ +
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Open Source Enables Terrorist States, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
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