From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 18 15: 3:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-248.oz.net [216.39.168.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458FB37B403 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f5ILbsx47557 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <200106182137.f5ILbsx47557@tao.thought.org> Subject: WARNING: OFF-TOPIC re M$.... To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Mailing List) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: <> thought.org: pvblic service Unix since 1986... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Advance apologies if you consider this report by the High-Perfomance Computing folks spam. FreeBSD is mentioned often in this news item. ...Since this wire is in the public domain, I'll put it up on my website within the next 24 hours... gary Lee Gomes Reported For The Wall Street Journal Online: Microsoft Corp., even while mounting a new campaign against open-source software, has quietly been using such free computer code in several major products, as well as on key portions of a popular Web site -- despite denying last week that it did so. Software connected with the FreeBSD open-source operating system is used in several places deep inside several versions of Microsoft's Windows software, such as in the "TCP/IP" section that arranges all connections to the Internet. The company also uses FreeBSD on numerous "server" computers that manage major functions at its Hotmail free e-mail service, whose registered users exceed 100 million and make it one of the Web's busiest sites. -- Gary D. Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message