Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:57:52 -0700 From: "Steve B." <steveb99@earthlink.net> To: "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Message-ID: <000e01c0f5e6$3a469000$f642d9cf@DROID> References: <20010615135713Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com><002201c0f5de$1f3844a0$f642d9cf@DROID> <20010615140117A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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I'll see if I can dig it up it was awhile back in one of the trade magazines or their ezine. Steve B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: <steveb99@earthlink.net> Cc: <hackers@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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