From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 10 19:11:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B307D4662 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:10:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06975; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:50:51 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000210194202.040341c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:50:43 -0700 To: Olaf Hoyer , David Kelly From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000211014526.00cc8730@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:48 PM 2/10/2000 , Olaf Hoyer wrote: >With regards to Richard Stallman... I think I remember some lines where he >said that in a Lab he worked some party decided to take over all the >computing power, and he finally got it back by patching the kernel... It may have been ITS that allowed an inconsiderate user to hog the CPU. It had virtually no security. I could be mistaken about this, though. It's well known, though, that Richard was very much opposed to even basic security measures. He badgered everyone at the MIT AI Lab to use the null string as a password, for the sake of "openness." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message