From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 20 8:52:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.simphost.com (citadel.simphost.com [216.253.163.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBB737B409 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jslivko@jmslivko.org) Received: by citadel.simphost.com (Postfix, from userid 1022) id D813524D05; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by citadel.simphost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C425920F04; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:56:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" X-X-Sender: To: Stephen Cass Cc: Subject: Re: IEEE Journalist looking for facts about Microsoft use of BSD code In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010620115424.J25361-100000@citadel.simphost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There was an article in the Wall Street Journal that said that an employee at Mirosoft stating that one of the employees actually admitted to using FreeBSD on some of their systems for "DNS resolution". I have the URL at home and i'll send it to ya when I get a chance. If you search the archives of freebsd-hackers, you will probbably find it because it's been bouncing around that list for a few days. -- Jonathan - --------------------------------------------------------- | Jonathan M. Slivko | e-mail: jslivko@jmslivko.org | | Technical Support | Black Lotus Communications | | Server Administrator | AsylumNet IRC Networks | | phone: (212) 726-3516 | web: http://www.jmslivko.org | - --------------------------------------------------------- PGP key is available @ http://www.jmslivko.org/jslivko.asc On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stephen Cass wrote: > Hello, > > Forgive my intrusion into this mailing list. I'm a journalist with > IEEE Spectrum magazine (www.spectrum.ieee.org). I'm following up the > Wall Street Journal article of June 18th, which describes how > Microsoft uses FreeBSD code. > > I'm aware that many of the utilities like FTP, etc use BSD code and > that services like Hotmail also use FreeBSD servers. What I'm trying > to do is follow up on the allegation made in that Microsoft has > either directly used or copied BSD code internally in its operating > systems, for example in the TCP/IP stack. Can anybody tell me what > evidence, if any, exists to back this up, or does anybody know of > someone who can answer that question? > > To respond, please mail me directly. All comments will be considered > off-the-record unless and until you agree otherwise. Thank you for > your time! > > Sincerely, > > Stephen > > > -- > Stephen Cass > Associate Editor, > IEEE Spectrum, > 3 Park Ave, > New York, NY 10016 > USA. > Tel: (212) 419 7754 > Fax: (212) 419 7570 > Web: www.spectrum.ieee.org > Email: s.cass@ieee.org > Interested in robosoccer? Visit robosoccer.spectrum.ieee.org > PGP Key available on request. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75 iQA/AwUBOzDHoFbZ0BAEOk7TEQLr8gCeI09FwMF2REfy3MIPqWcS1vQQPzwAoOz7 jPJckYKAiuua3wKD6Zsx2Y5O =EaEx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message