Re: DARPA funding?

[Daniel MD <IM-Thinking_(_at_)_clix_(_dot_)_pt>]

This is nothing new DARPA as been a great supporter for BSD systems since 
the day's of the 3BSD release, if you don't belive me, just read this 
excerpt of the Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution book:

"In the fall of 1979, Bob Fabry responded to DARPA's interest in moving 
towards Unix by writing a proposal suggesting that Berkeley develop an 
enhanced version of 3BSD for the use of the DARPA community. Fabry took a 
copy of his proposal to a meeting of DARPA image processing and VLSI 
contractors, plus representatives from Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, the 
developers of the ARPAnet. There was some reservation whether Berkeley 
could produce a working system; however, the release of 3BSD in December 
1979 assuaged most of the doubts"

So i think that old habits die hard, and this is a good habit that DARPA 
has i hope it will never die.

if you want to read more, go to 
http:\\www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/, this is a great on-line 
book, for those who are interested in the history of open source and BSD.


Thank You for your time, Compliments, and Have a Nice Day...
Daniel MD [DanielMD_(_at_)_im-thinking_(_dot_)_com] of IM-Thinking Consulting Corporation