Subject: Re: Ultrix/VAX
To: Patrick Light <plight@anet-stl.com>
From: Patrick Light <plight@anet-stl.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/30/1998 10:19:17
Patrick Light wrote:
>
> Paul Apprich wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >
> > > On January 29, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> > > > Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:
> > > > > Yes...So at least don't discuss it so publicly. ;)
> > > > What we should really discuss publicly is how to overthrow the current
> > > > tyrannical and oppressive government and convert this country from a
> > > > totalitarian dictatorship into a free state where all software would belong
> > > > equally to all citizens.
> > >
> > > Uhh, ok. Revolution at, say, 1pm tomorrow? No, make that 2, I have
> > > a lunch meeting that could run long...and I'll have to stop back at
> > > home to pick up my ammo.
> > >
> > >
> > This is getting out of hand. The next thing that will be discussed
> > here is will be those one hundred or so unaccounted for 'suitcase nukes'?
> > Kurchatov Kits? Copies of John Aristotle Phillips' Princeton thesis? We
> > don't need Waco or Ruby Ridge as our doorsteps fellows! This is exactly
> > the sort of thing that some people want to bring out to persuade Congress
> > to censor the Internet. It hurts me to say that at a certain level, all
> > nations are alike, the U.S.A. being no exception.
>
> > At the risk of repeating, Once there is a free OS available with even
> > greater flexibility, who would want Ultrix anyway?
> >
> > P.S.A
Hey, I was just inquiring...besides, I like pain :) (I'm a UNIX help
desk tech). I would just rather run some form of UNIX than VMS for
pressing TK50 tapes of the NetBSD/VAX images from my VAXStation
3100...My apologies for causing such a stir...