firstly, new mexico has taken the trophy home for the past two years for being the dumbest state in the union. secondly, like radar detectors and mod chips, if anyone really wanted to circumvent this "feature", they could. you may be saying, "but nchernyy! radar detectors are illegal in my state and mod chips violate the DMCA!" you would be surprised to find that you can import radar detectors from other states and that you can still get your favourite mod chips online.

$2 million is news. That's a lot of money to be out into open source.

Interesting take on the situation. However, the money from DARPA has been trickling through for over a year already...