From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 6 16:40:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19357 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19348 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12310; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:40:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd012282; Fri Mar 6 17:40:37 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA24343; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:40:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803070040.RAA24343@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:40:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803052324.RAA10600@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "David Kelly" at Mar 5, 98 05:24:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Wandering , if we can get a grant from the goverment to support the SMP > > project or to support FreeBSD ? > > I think you'd stand a better chance with the US Gov if you sold your > pitch as a free and secure replacement for Windows. NT "security" was > pitched hard and only now is the true situation being realized. > > Problem is to replace Windows you would also have to replace Word and > Excel. These days government computers are essentially Microsoft Office > platforms, and Microsoft Office is essentially the OS. Get a grant for Win32 on FreeBSD first. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message