You should look at graduates of Tsinghua and the IITs.
The IITs, as the top engineering schools in India, have a 0.92% acceptance rate. [1]
Meanwhile, Tsinghua accepts 0.92% of Beijing applicants and close to 0.1% from elsewhere in China. [2]
This is exactly what happens at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. By law, ETH is required to admit any Swiss secondary school graduate - to compensate, the courses are designed to filter out students. As a result, about 50% [1] of the entering class will drop out. This system is not likely to be popular in the US.
The founders of Kx (Arthur Whitney and Janet Lustgarten) sold their stakes in the company to First Derivatives plc and have now founded Shakti. Kdb+ is still sold by Kx. Shakti seems to be a successor system to kdb+.
As for you second question, how would brandelf change the binary (disclaimer: not a BSD user)?