From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 18 19:55:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp5ve.mailsrvcs.net (smtp5vepub.gte.net [206.46.170.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1618A37B403 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:55:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-158.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.158]) by smtp5ve.mailsrvcs.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA18114150; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 02:55:07 GMT Message-ID: <3B2EBF0A.988CAE0C@bellatlantic.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:55:06 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Bsdguru@aol.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? References: <125.668727.285cee6c@aol.com> <20010618111708.E728@tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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