From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 6 14:19: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A6537B4D7 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from box077.labs.pitt.edu ("port 2161"@[130.49.141.88]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01JW87ICNTYG005CHF@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:19:02 EST Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:18:49 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: RE: Microsoft Source (fwd) In-reply-to: <000201c04837$07d4ed90$66c6ddd1@STORK> Originator-info: login-id=pfg1; server=imap.pitt.edu To: Heredity Choice , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <2868520678.973531129@box077.labs.pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mulberry (Win32) [1.4.4, s/n S-398070] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Monday, November 06, 2000, 1:17 PM -0800 Heredity Choice 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message