+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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+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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+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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