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WASHINGTON - The U.S. military has pulled funding from a project involving the OpenBSD open-source operating system, according to the operating system's project leader, and he suspects it was in retaliation for antiwar comments of his that were published in a Canadian newspaper.
Theo de Raadt, leader of the OpenBSD project, said he found out Thursday that the remaining funding had been pulled on a $2.3 million Portable Open-Source Security Enhancements project at the University of Pennsylvania, run through the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The project was part of DARPA's Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems project, which focuses on protecting computer systems from malicious code.
About 15% of the funding, awarded in mid-2000, had remained unspent, de Raadt estimated. According to de Raadt, two days before the funding was cut off, Jonathan Smith, the University of Pennsylvania computer science professor in charge of the project there, phoned de Raadt. Smith told de Raadt that several people at the university and DARPA were uncomfortable with de Raadt's antiwar comments, which appeared in the Globe & Mail of Toronto in early April.
But a DARPA spokeswoman denied that de Raadt is being punished for his remarks. De Raadt is mistaken about funding being cut off, she said; rather, DARPA is reviewing the University of Pennsylvania project.
"As part of our standard process, we are reviewing and evaluating the work now being done and proposed to be done in the future," spokeswoman Jan Walker wrote in an e-mail. "We will not state in advance the result of our review process, but we have no a priori intention to end the research effort. We're sorry if this review process has been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work."
In the Globe & Mail story, the resident of Calgary, Canada, said the current U.S. war against Iraq "sickens" him. De Raadt also said he was uncomfortable taking money from the U.S. military, but "I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built."
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