From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 13 11:44:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD043E9C for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E5E987558; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AE51D8A for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:47:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:47:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux In-Reply-To: <20000210212329.A4718@wallnet.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Christopher S. Weimann wrote: :(This section is by Richard Stallman.) : :Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the :rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to :seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and :keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup :and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't :know how to do that in Unix.) I don't know why the hell MIT didn't toss him out on his ass for this. The UNI CS dept. I worked for would've tossed him so fast and hard he'd have bounced twice. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message