Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:55:06 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Bsdguru@aol.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Message-ID: <3B2EBF0A.988CAE0C@bellatlantic.net> References: <125.668727.285cee6c@aol.com> <20010618111708.E728@tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:16:28PM -0400, Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > > is BSDI's stack so superior to any of the other BSDs that MS would pay BSDI > > for it, particularly at a time when BSDI was trying to compete with MS in the > > server market? Seems like something that a bunch of BSD fanatics conjured up > > after a few beers. > > Are you sure that this was Microsoft. The press release that I remember > from last year was a Compaq one (or was it SCO), but not Microsoft. Definitely not SCO. Though SCO's Great Networking Achievement of year 2000 was an implementation of in-kernel sockets (as opposed to the user-level library over TLI) so there is a chance that you had it confused with this. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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