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To: steveb99@earthlink.net
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Subject: Re: Query:  How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:01:17 -0700
From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Do you have a pointer to what you read?  I really need HARD evidence
here, not just anecdotal stuff.  Thanks!

- Jordan

From: "Steve B." <steveb99@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Query:  How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:59:51 -0700

> What I read awhile back was MS licensed from BSDi their TCP/IP stack for use
> in W2K.
> 
> Steve B.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
> To: <hackers@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 1:57 PM
> Subject: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?
> 
> 
> > 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
> >
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