From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 20 10:19:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpsrv0.isis.unc.edu (smtpsrv0.isis.unc.edu [152.2.1.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0068C37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:19:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crimsun@email.unc.edu) Received: from login3.isis.unc.edu (crimsun@login3.isis.unc.edu [152.2.1.100]) by smtpsrv0.isis.unc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA24988; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:19:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from crimsun@localhost) by login3.isis.unc.edu (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA30206; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:19:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:19:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Daniel T. Chen" X-Sender: crimsun@login3.isis.unc.edu To: Stephen Cass Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IEEE Journalist looking for facts about Microsoft use of BSD code In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 I realize this may not be the most unbiased source, but there's a response at http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357 It by no means represents the majority view of any users. :) Cheers, dtc --- Dan Chen crimsun@email.unc.edu GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message