Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:47:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002131145500.53806-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20000210212329.A4718@wallnet.com>
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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
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