Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 08:56:30 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: flamage in comp.security.unix .. Message-ID: <199509250756.IAA05237@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <199509241941.FAA16757@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Sep 25, 95 05:41:35 am
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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
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