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
