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RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today
In anonymous reader writes "RMS will be moving his office to the new William H. Gates building at MIT's Stata Center starting today. This marks the end of MIT's use of building NE43, which housed the LCS and AI labs (now combined into CSAIL).
On a strangely unrelated note, shortly after Harvard, in a laudable attempt to retain solidarity with the Open Source community, dedicated the Maxwell Dworkin building (named after Gates' and Ballmer's mothers respectively), Gates' credit card was hacked. After all, they did have his mother's maiden name... "
ah the irony is just to delicous
... is the 'w' in 'Dworkin' silent?
What did they order with it? And did Bill notice 100 being spent out of his 1,000,000,000,000,000.... bank account?
My Auction:Pan Tilt Ethernet Webcam, UK!
... named after Gates' and Ballmer's mothers respectively
Even their mothers have buildings named after them! This is insane.
Typical - you fund a shiny new building but no sooner is it in use than some bearded hippy moves in and lowers the property values.
Hoarders may pay to fund new buildings,
that is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot choose their neighbours.
That's not good, hackers, that's not good.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
No way... so by buying Microsoftware, we supported the FSF?
my other sig is a 500 page novel
...make me think "Maximus Dorkus", which makes me think of Pilate's fwiends' names in "Life of Brian".
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There's MIT, Stanford... anywhere else that Billy has seen fit to leave his mark?
The DOJ in Washington, DC?"Abandon all hope ye who use Outlook Express"
That the Bill Gates building is the home of "Artificial" intelligence. Perhaps now we will see The Borg incorporated in Emacs.
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)
I believe they're either called "homosexual females" or "lesbians" now.
Why does this just cause a picture in my mind of someone's long lost childhood friend showing up at your door after being kicked out by his wife and broke with no job?
I know that isn't what it's all about, but that was the the first picture that popped into my head.
See the Pictures of the Flood of '08
Hmmm... maybe it's a typo because I read it as "Harvard, in a laughable attempt..." :)
Scientia est Potentia
I saw him pissing on the side of the Supreme Court Building in DC a few weeks back...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
I just can't imagine Bill Gates having a credit card. It seems so... ordinary. I always imagined that billionaires had payment methods beyond mere credit cards - like an assistant with a suitcase full of diamonds or something.
I have a window cube looking out in the direction of the building, and it never ceases to amaze me how ungodly ugly the building is.
And the worst part is my only other option is to look at my computer and do work, using this ungodly awful Windows system.
Unless I go fooz, I can't get away from looking at Gates' handiwork. Ugh
I work at Harvard and was talking to one of the deans about the Maxwell Dworkin building. He mentioned that they used the [assembly] code for DOS (they went into the archives from when Bill G was at H) as an abstract pattern for a wall mural. I asked him whether anyone had checked the code to see if there where any buffer overflow vulnerabilities. It could make the building susceptible to a worm attack. He didn't get it. Conversation ended abruptly.
Microsoft could have filled the building with special bugging devices that would enable them to get their hands on the code that RMS is writing.
Oh wait.
This would be akin to you noticing your neighbor left the keys in his car and you decided to take it for a ride before telling him about it.
Oh shit! That's illegal?!
Yes, he hasn't been an employee for twenty years or so, but he still has an office here.
(Welcome to academia)
Hmmm... Clearly some testing is required.
Maybe if somebody could forward it, I could test it out by buying something that will prove that it is actually Gates' card.
I'm thinking that South Dakota should be adequate for this task.
myke
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Even their mothers have buildings named after them! This is insane.
That's because they can't name the buildings after their fathers. It wouldn't look good to name the building "UPS-Man and Pool-Boy Building."
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
dude this is slashdot we dont use any types of punctuation marks because we are too busy coding where do you think you are elementary school
You're worshipping at the FSF's altar and you ask them to define RMS?
Let me guess... you're new here?
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
The Gates of Hell?
That's at Stanford.
This Like That - fun with words!
He came from a broken home. Mom married a woodworker and then fooled around on the side with the Holy Spirit. So his biological daddy was powerful but JC never got to be President. Didn't serve in the army, neither.
He tried to do some nice things but only in a naive, small-scale way. Didn't do nothing fer the gross national product. Now Henry Ford... there's an imagination!
Ok, I'll give you that some of his idears helped found some really big monopolies after his death. But then, he wasn't around to enjoy the gravy. What kind of heroism is that?
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
It must be a glitch in accounting :)
This is an example of irony used for humorous effect.
Another example is the fact that Slashdot readers rated your question as "Score: 5, Insightful".
no, he is a troll, you idiot
he was heard saying:
*mumble* I'll burn this place down *mumble*
IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
Al Capone built a huge business from scratch, too. Most of it was even legit.
And he probably spread more of his wealth around that Mr. Gates does.
Let's hear it for Al Capone, another great American hero! (And still voting in Cook County)
Root Mean Square
Royal Merchant Ship
Royal Meterological Society
Royal Microscopical Society
or my favourite in this context:
Microsoft Windows(R) Rights Management Services (RMS)
Harvard: Yo momma.
The OSS Community: Word!
= University Building Monopoly !!!!
Not quite, but the smaller universities may not have a dedicated comp sci building, and it makes no sense for Bill Gates to fund a math building does it? We'd figure out how much money he "really" has...
ok, puny humor this morning I should know better than to attempt this before coffee
RMS now has plans to daily enter Bill Gate's through the back door, and occasionally the front as well ;=P
...after discovering that GNU applications are being used on Windows.
Check out the map at http://www.csail.mit.edu/resources/maps/3/381.gif
I'd be more than happy to bear the shame of the building name, if I got to spend my lunchtime on the holodeck !
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)