Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:23:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "Windows brings us something we don't have..." Message-ID: <20010524212354.A40930@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010524162056.017ae418@mail.threespace.com>; from tech_info@threespace.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:34:17PM -0400 References: <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010524192111.B69030@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010524162056.017ae418@mail.threespace.com>
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--bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:34:17PM -0400, Technical Information wrote: > What building at MIT is named after Bill Gates? And since when has he=20 > given MIT any money at all? MIT is a die-hard UNIX institution; I can't= =20 > imagine that injecting any version of Windows into the official=20 > infrastructure would be easy at all. The point is that the original quote was unsupported, and therefore meaningless unless put in some kind of context. Frankly, I think it's a waste of time discussing this kind of thing..I wouldn't mind if Jonathan stopped posting every unsupported assertion about Windows being good that he comes across :-) Kris > 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... >=20 >=20 > 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, b= ut 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 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Dd5ZWry0BWjoQKURAqmQAKDwM58hMOH21PMl2ptEjW8+kq6mIQCeIuip S8ja04KkdUu7S1wq8GtcJ+0= =EZbx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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