From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 15 13:57:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82BC37B409 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5FKvDt58845 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010615135713Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:57:13 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 13 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 I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user utilities, and though it's always been "common knowledge" in the community that they were, when I set about to "prove" it I found it to be less easy than I'd thought. I've strings'd various binaries and DLLs in my copy of Windows 98 but have yet to find anything resembling proof. Does anyone out there have any details or discovery techniques for confirming or disproving this assertion either way? It would be very useful (for us) from a PR standpoint to know. Thanks! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message