Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 17:24:40 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? Message-ID: <199803052324.RAA10600@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 16:14:50 PST." <199803040014.QAA01499@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty writes: > > Wandering , if we can get a grant from the goverment to support the SMP > project or to support FreeBSD ? I think you'd stand a better chance with the US Gov if you sold your pitch as a free and secure replacement for Windows. NT "security" was pitched hard and only now is the true situation being realized. Problem is to replace Windows you would also have to replace Word and Excel. These days government computers are essentially Microsoft Office platforms, and Microsoft Office is essentially the OS. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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