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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:50:17 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        Lorenzo Allegrucci <lenstra@tiscalinet.it>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Urban legend? (was: Just imagine..)
Message-ID:  <20000922175017.B258@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000922100450.A17515@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:04:50AM -0400
References:  <3.0.1.32.20000922153528.008dbd20@pop.tiscalinet.it> <20000922100450.A17515@blackhelicopters.org>

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:04:50AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote:
> Somewhat.  Early betas of Win2k identified themselves as "NetBSD" in
> OS fingerprinting tests.
> 
> However, that's what the BSD license is for.  If MS take *more* of our
> IP stack, a lot of pain and misery would be alleviated for a lot of
> people.
> 

Not only Win2K, NT as well:


$ cd /ntfs/WINNT/system32
$ for i in `ls RSH.EXE FTP.EXE FINGER.EXE RCP.EXE NSLOOKUP.EXE`
> do
> echo $i
> strings $i | grep Calif
> done
FINGER.EXE
@(#) Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
FTP.EXE
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
NSLOOKUP.EXE
@(#) Copyright (c) 1985,1989 Regents of the University of California.
RCP.EXE
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
RSH.EXE
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
$


> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:35:28PM +0200, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:
> > 
> > Is it true that m$ included the TCP/IP stack of FreeBSD in w2k?
> > If so m$ has already "embraced & extended" unix :-(
> > 
> > --
> > Lorenzo
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> Michael Lucas
> mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
> http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
> Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons
> 
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