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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:52:18 -0800 To: privacy-list@vortex.com Message-ID: <20091127045218.GA5293@vortex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline From: privacy@vortex.com Reply-To: PRIVACY Forum Digest mailing list <privacy@vortex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Errors-To: privacy-bounces+privacy-forum=mit.edu@vortex.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greetings. A quick followup to "A History Lesson: Microsoft Windows - "Exit, Stage Right" -- just to keep the historical record straight. In the original text, I incorrectly typoed that Apple's OS was based on Linux. This of course is incorrect -- it's actually developed from NetBSD (a different tree of open-source Unix-inspired OS than Linux) and, to be even more specific, CMU Mach. The "Linux vs. BSD" battle isn't appropriate for more discussion during a holiday. I also received a couple of messages from mainframe guys who took issue with my characterization of mainframes' decline, but after all I did note that they're still around. In fact, they're still burning the megawatts here in California and causing all kinds of mischief running ancient COBOL payroll programs for the state government! But that saga too, can wait. Again, Happy Thanksgiving. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren@vortex.com Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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