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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 16:34:17 -0400
From:      Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>
To:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "Windows brings us something we don't have..."
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010524162056.017ae418@mail.threespace.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010524192111.B69030@lpt.ens.fr>
References:  <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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What building at MIT is named after Bill Gates?  And since when has he 
given MIT any money at all?  MIT is a die-hard UNIX institution; I can't 
imagine that injecting any version of Windows into the official 
infrastructure would be easy at all.



At 01:21 PM 5/24/2001, Rahul wrote:
>Does the article say?  What's the URL?  MIT has a building named after
>Gates, IIRC, and huge funding from him, so I'm a bit surprised that
>the first installation of W2K is as late as this...


At 02:39 PM 5/24/2001, Kris wrote:
>On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:15:39PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
> >  "There are people on campus who aren't too keen on Windows at all, but as
> > we work with them, they are beginning to see
> >  that Windows brings us something we don't have," says Danilo Almeida, a
> > systems programmer in MIT's information
> >  systems department.
>
>And what would that be, hmm?  Massive funding injections from the
>William H. Gates III Foundation?
>
>Boring..
>
>Kris


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