From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 24 13:47:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailtmp7.registeredsite.com (mailtmp7.registeredsite.com [216.247.127.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7E137B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 13:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tech_info@threespace.com) Received: from mail1.registeredsite.com (mail1.registeredsite.com [64.224.9.10]) by mailtmp7.registeredsite.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4OKjNp28544 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 16:45:23 -0400 Received: from mail.threespace.com ([216.247.134.44]) by mail1.registeredsite.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4OKkKS20295 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 16:46:20 -0400 Received: from CX1063714-B.threespace.com [216.247.134.44] by mail.threespace.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.05) id A3184AD000AE; Thu, 24 May 2001 16:46:16 -0400 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010524162056.017ae418@mail.threespace.com> X-Sender: tech_info@mail.threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:34:17 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: "Windows brings us something we don't have..." In-Reply-To: <20010524192111.B69030@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message