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... "

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As a former playground bully, I want to know

[potcrackpot]

... is the 'w' in 'Dworkin' silent?

Re:As a former playground bully, I want to know

[Anonymous Coward]

Speaking of names, does anyone know what the "H" stands for in William H. Gates?

Hitler.

Re:As a former playground bully, I want to know

[harvardian]

The quick Harvard wit already picked up on that one. Everybody on campus (other than the CS majors) calls the building "Max Dork".

I'm not kidding :-P

Revision to the song

[Ed Avis]

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.

Re:What other Gates buildings are there?

[Maestro4k]

• There's MIT, Stanford... anywhere else that Billy has seen fit to leave his mark?

The DOJ in Washington, DC?

Re:What other Gates buildings are there?

[bgeer]

The Gates of Hell?

"Abandon all hope ye who use Outlook Express"

Re:What other Gates buildings are there?

[sTalking_Goat]

I saw him pissing on the side of the Supreme Court Building in DC a few weeks back...

Bill Gates Credit Cards

[MCZapf]

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.

Damn that building is ugly.

[tgd]

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

Funny Story

[Princess Die]

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.

Re:What other Gates buildings are there?

[zulux]

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."

Re:Use punctuation

[Savatte]

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

Re:irony

[pilgrim23]

Query: does the Bill Gates Building have....Windows?