Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:34:17 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Windows brings us something we don't have..." Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010524162056.017ae418@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20010524192111.B69030@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010524181538.B94699@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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What building at MIT is named after Bill Gates? And since when has he given MIT any money at all? MIT is a die-hard UNIX institution; I can't imagine that injecting any version of Windows into the official infrastructure would be easy at all. 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... 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, but 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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