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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:35:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        howardjp@wam.umd.edu (James Howard)
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Response to ZDNet's anti-BSD Story
Message-ID:  <200006080135.SAA23389@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006070415.AAA05828@rac5.wam.umd.edu> from "James Howard" at Jun 07, 2000 12:15:10 AM

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> it to OSOpinion sometime tomorrow.  I decided to send it to the mailing
> list first to solicit suggestions and recomendations on it.  So, without
> further ado, here it is, enjoy.

[ ... ]

> Microsoft had
> taken the open source MIT software, made changes affecting compatibility,
> and released the new version without the source code.

Except they didn't take the MIT code, they rolled their own from
the specifications, and then misused a field against the stated
intent of the uses for that field by the protocol author.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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