Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:03:46 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFilter not free software? Message-ID: <200105310403.f4V43kx26303@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> of "Wed, 30 May 2001 11:28:48 %2B0200." <20010530112848.H57297@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan writes: > Let's take a better known example: Microsoft. In 1995 they used BSD > code for their networking in Windows 95. They widely trumpeted the > networking features in their advertisements (the Internet was just > catching on, and Windows 3.1 didn't have any inbuilt internet > capability). I don't recall any acknowledgement of UCB in Microsoft's > advertisements. Was that, or was it not, a violation of the > advertising clause (which had not yet been removed at that time)? > > My claim is that the advertising clause would have been violated more > often than honoured, even by well-meaning people. Moreover, it was > inconsistent with the goal of allowing the maximum number of people to > use the software with the least amount of hassle. Dropping it was a > good thing. Think it was NT 3.51 which had a "portions copyright BSD" (or some such) message in the text displayed during boot, which was momentarily before they fired up the graphics. Have heard more than one claim that "NT is MS-BSD" with nothing but that little copyright notice as evidence. As a result this is what I always think of when "BSD advertising clause removal" comes up. That BSD was embarrased by being associated with Microsoft and removed the requirement for everyone. Not that I know anything. But the time line is about right. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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