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Subject: Re: Query:  How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winsock/apistart_9g1e.htm mentions
BSD, not sure if is direct enough.

I'm downloading the SDK right now so I can grepmonkey through the latest
and greatest headers, etc.

HTH

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[ Joseph Mallett            <jmallett@xMach.org> ] [ http://srcsys.org ]
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Joseph A. Mallett wrote:

> Do you happen to have any of their Winsock propoganda handy (specifically
> developer materials or winsock.h header file)? I know for a fact that they
> have said repetedly that some of it was taken directly from Berkely. I'm
> just not sure where... I'm going to start digging through my stuff to see
> if I can find anything.
>
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> [ Joseph Mallett            <jmallett@xMach.org> ] [ http://srcsys.org ]
> [ xMach Core Team         xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ]
> [ FreeBSD, NetBSD, & xMach User; (Obj)C(++) Coder ] [ http://xMach.org ]
>
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> > 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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