From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) In-Reply-To: <20060403153810.69bb2d98@garlique> References: <283f5df10604021316l31fd4ea4k38df941ff7094e6f@mail.gmail.com> <20060403153810.69bb2d98@garlique> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:45:09 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ce8abce-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Apr 2, 2006, at 10:38 PM, George Michaelson wrote: > [I worked in several academic/research institutions holding BSD > regents > licences, and while the were a complet PITA to deal with over > re-re-re-signings and the like (if you couldn't dig up the corpse and > use the hand to sign the documents with a forgery of the original > signatures on the first paperwork ever signed with Berkeley, then you > couldn't renew licences: like the role of 'vice chancellor' never > changes in the lifetime of a business relationship with Berkeley!) ] How was this different from dealing with AT&T? Both had assinine beaurocracy. It took me close to a month to register for the SVR3 kernel internals course. As a Canadian, I didn't have a US social security number. I never did find out why that was a pre-requisite. They did finally settle for my phone number instead. --lyndon