Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:18:49 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <2868520678.973531129@box077.labs.pitt.edu> In-Reply-To: <000201c04837$07d4ed90$66c6ddd1@STORK>
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--On Monday, November 06, 2000, 1:17 PM -0800 Heredity Choice
<stork@QNET.COM> wrote:r
>
> At least I don't think so, but I once read that WINNT uses the Mach
> microkernel, which has a license very similar to the GPL. Can anybody
> comment?
>
It is not the Mach microkernel AFAIK, Bill Gates hired most of the people
that were working on Mach to build a complete new kernel. OTOH, even if
they took code from Mach, the license is very similar to the BSD
license...in fact the last time I checked, FreeBSD still had some code on
the VM with this license. Of course John Dyson and Matt Dillon (among
others) have changed the VM so much that I doubt the original coders from
CMU would recognize it :-).
cheers,
Pedro.
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