Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:58:23 -0700 From: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jmslivko.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen Cass <s.cass@ieee.org> Subject: Re: IEEE Journalist looking for facts about Microsoft use of BSD code Message-ID: <OF29132B73.F8992EAE-ON88256A72.001F59CB@wr.usgs.gov>
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To: Stephen Cass <s.cass@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: IEEE Journalist looking for facts about Microsoft use of BSD code
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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
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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
>
>
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