Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:19:06 -0400 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect) Message-ID: <20010618171906.S1832@superconductor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <200106181614.f5IGEET14658@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:14:14AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106181206250.43685-100000@localhost> <200106181614.f5IGEET14658@earth.backplane.com>
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* Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> [010618 16:49] wrote: > : > :http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm > > Ahhh.... very nice. BSD is more viral then GPL it would seem :-) I was thinking of making my netboot install thingy (http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/) into a sort of FreeBSD worm, just an install server that makes more install servers... drop it on some network someplace and sit back and enjoy. :) > It > will be interesting to see if MS now tries to rewrite TCP/IP. I got > dibs on the front row aisle seat! Where's the popcorn? I'm not sure I'd be up for eating after seeing that code. You could sort of imagine something like Microsoft DP/IP, datagram protocol, really UDP because reliable transmission is "hard" and "error prone". :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehome | help
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