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schestowitz>   OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'Oct 19 01:19
schestowitz>Oct 19 01:19
schestowitz>Oct 19 01:19
schestowitz>       Open source project leader claims move is retaliation for antiwarOct 19 01:20
schestowitz>       commentsOct 19 01:20
schestowitz>Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz> Grant Gross <https://www.infoworld.com/author/Grant-Gross/> By GrantOct 19 01:20
schestowitz> Gross <https://www.infoworld.com/author/Grant-Gross/>Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz>Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz> Senior Editor, IDG News Service <http://www.idgnews.net/> |Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz>Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz>Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz> The U.S. Department of Defense now says "world events" are the reason itOct 19 01:20
schestowitz> has suspended a contract with the OpenBSD software project, not theOct 19 01:20
schestowitz> project founder's antiwar comments, but the agency that cancelled theOct 19 01:20
schestowitz> project won't say much more than that.Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz>Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz> Theo de Raadt, leader of the open-source operating system project,Oct 19 01:20
schestowitz> announced last week that funding had been cut for a project funded byOct 19 01:20
schestowitz> the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), just daysOct 19 01:20
schestowitz> after he was quoted in a Canadian newspaper as opposing the U.S. war inOct 19 01:20
schestowitz> Iraq and expressing his discomfort with taking Defense Department funding.Oct 19 01:20
schestowitzBeen AGES since I saw this author's name!Oct 19 01:20
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schestowitz>  Dear Manager,Oct 19 17:56
schestowitz>Oct 19 17:56
schestowitz> (Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks!)Oct 19 17:57
schestowitz> This is a formal mail. We are a Network Service Company which is theOct 19 17:57
schestowitz> domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. On October 19, 2020,Oct 19 17:57
schestowitz> we received an application from Longjiang Holdings Ltd requestedOct 19 17:57
schestowitz> “schestowitz” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names(Oct 19 17:57
schestowitz> schestowitz.cn/ schestowitz.com.cn/ schestowitz.net.cn/Oct 19 17:57
schestowitz> schestowitz.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflictOct 19 17:57
schestowitz> with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matterOct 19 17:57
schestowitz> better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether thisOct 19 17:57
schestowitz> company is your distributor or business partner in China?Oct 19 17:57
schestowitzIt is yet another scam attempt.Oct 19 17:57
schestowitzRegards,Oct 19 17:57
schestowitz> Thanks for the heads-up about thisOct 19 18:05
schestowitz>Oct 19 18:05
schestowitz> Inconsistency between planet.debian.org and uncensored.debian.communityOct 19 18:05
schestowitz> like this is a bug but it can be improved.  I put in some more checks toOct 19 18:05
schestowitz> help with this.  The end-game is to make it even more distributed, thatOct 19 18:05
schestowitz> is coming.Oct 19 18:05
schestowitzThere's a followup: http://techrights.org/2020/10/19/codes-of-conduct-and-debian/Oct 19 18:05
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