On 01/14/2008 07:23 PM, James Knott wrote: > > Perhaps you can forward that info to the UoO. > > I seem to recall someone else using a university's computers for > commercial business. Lessee now... I think it was at Harvard and it > was... Oh yes, Bill Gates. He (and Paul Allen) used the Harvard > computers to develop BASIC for the Altair 8800, despite Harvard's policy > against using the computers for commercial purposes. >
I intend to do that later this evening. I've captured the pages in PDF and will forward those to them. I probably wouldn't even have a problem with someone charging for a link (buyer beware) as long as they also provide their own support etc. But selling a link to others resources, particularly a government owned educational computer resource that kindly offer the time and resources for open source software (http://osuosl.org/) just burns my butt. http://www.osba.org/edlinks/univers.asp I wonder if others would be irate as well if the link were to one of the servers at the local public primary school... Re Gates et al; I believe that Gates and Ballmer were students at Harvard at the time - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/bio.mspx those were also different times... I'd hardly relate that instance (Gates etc) with someone selling a commercial link in to a state owned government university computer to download free open source software. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
