The U.S. Department of Defense now says "world events" are the reason it has suspended a contract with the OpenBSD software project, not the project founder's antiwar comments, but the agency that cancelled the project won't say much more than that.
Theo de Raadt, leader of the open-source operating system project, announced last week that funding had been cut for a project funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), just days after he was quoted in a Canadian newspaper as opposing the U.S. war in Iraq and expressing his discomfort with taking Defense Department funding.
DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker denied that the funding was pulled because of de Raadt's comments, saying last Friday the remaining portion of the $2.3 million Portable Open-Source Security Enhancements project was under review. But this week,
"As a result of the DARPA review of the project, and due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states, the Government on April 21 advised the University to suspend work on the 'security fest' portion of the project.," Walker wrote in an e-mail this week.
The security fest, what de Raadt calls a "hackathon," was scheduled to bring about 60 OpenBSD programmers to
"I just don't think we're going to be able to go into any more detail,"
De Raadt said he still isn't buying DARPA's explanation. The
The university is also trying to cancel the last three months of de Raadt's contract through the DARPA program, he said. The actions "are adding up together to a pattern of retaliation," de Raadt added. "I'm a bit stunned."
Jonathan Smith, the
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