From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 24 21:24: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-39.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA4E37B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 21:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B67FB66B5F; Thu, 24 May 2001 21:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:23:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Technical Information Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: "Windows brings us something we don't have..." Message-ID: <20010524212354.A40930@xor.obsecurity.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 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 --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