From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 28 11:35:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m02.mx.aol.com (imo-m02.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D0637B406 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bsdguru@aol.com) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-m02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.6.) id n.11b.eff6ca (16787) for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:35:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: <11b.eff6ca.286cd30a@aol.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:35:54 EDT Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? To: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 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 In a message dated 06/28/2001 12:23:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, wes@softweyr.com writes: > > Personally I don't care much about BSD vs. GPL and am > > annoyed by Microsoft's hypocricy (sp?). The fact that > > they're using open source software is great. > > That was the point I was trying to make. Rather than be annoyed by this, > it should be splashed across /., lwn, etc. But I'm not gonna do it. > Maybe ESR will if you tell him. > I dont think that microsoft is being hypocritical. They dont generally say that open source has no value, only that they dont agree that its a viable strategy for marketing commercial products. I dont think that the fact that they use some code as a base for their products contradicts that position at all. Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message