[654] in Moira
Discuss, Hesiod, Moira, & Athena are registered trademarks of MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Tue Sep 21 23:05:04 1993
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 22:57:27 -0400
From: jh@flolab.mit.edu (Joe Harrington)
To: bhatiani@jpmorgan.com
Cc: mlc@MIT.EDU, dcns@MIT.EDU, acs@MIT.EDU, css@MIT.EDU, isdir@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: bhatiani@jpmorgan.com's message of Tue, 21 Sep 1993 22:01:39 -0400 (EDT) <9309220201.AA03402@nightc.lsi.ny.jpmorgan.com>
Cc: jh@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@MIT.EDU
And speaking from the inside, when I wanted to install several
packages (e.g., Kerberos) I was used to from Athena on my lab machines
a couple of years ago, and couldn't get the sources on athena-dist to
compile on a DECstation, the only response I got from Athena was
laughter and "making software for other people isn't our job." As X
proved, there is considerable intangible benefit for MIT if our
non-commercial packages are the standards.
--jh--
