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Subject: Re: flamage in comp.security.unix ..
To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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> 
> As usual, the Linux vs. *BSD wars continue to rage :-(. This time, in
> comp.security.unix; a (slightly trimmed) excerpt ..
> 
> From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
> Subject: Re: Firewall platform of choice
> Date: 22 Sep 1995 21:16:41 +0200
> Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Karlsruhe_(TH),_Germany_?=
> Message-ID: <43v22p$8sp@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> Reply-To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de
> 
> In comp.security.unix, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
> 
> >No, they didn't. Linux is rather unique among the UNIX and UNIX clone
> >systems in that they did their own IP rather than taking advantage of the
> >reference implementation in BSD.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I always thought they just took the Net-2 networking code and got not
sued by USL for this.

> 
> >There were arguably good reasons at the time for doing so (the USL lawsuit
> >against BSDI and the CSRG), but since then there have been two new releases
> >of blessed code. Surely it's time to abandon NIH and import the good stuff.
> 

[...are these RFC violations still in FreeBSD...  - deleted]

> 
> 	michael
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de