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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 1998 06:40:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU>
To:        "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de'" <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Subject:   Re: Possible misuse of BSD Daemon
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.980723063809.7703B-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B0570F4@exchange.nectech.co.uk>

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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bond, Jeffery wrote:

> >While we are at it: Does somebody know the Hummingbird X-Server and
> >the Hummingbird NFS for Windows NT? They have an inetd Service which
> >can be seen in the Control Panel. If I remember correctly, the 
> >correspondant icon always reminded me of one of the BSD daemons as well.
> >I can't figure it out because we dropped the NFS stuff for NT after
> >installing samba :-)
> >
> >Maybe someone might look at that, too.
> 
> 
> Hmm, I use Hummingbird Exceed at work. The inetd icon does indeed appear to
> be a blatant rip-off. Its the same colour, and even has that three-pronged
> prongy thing (a trident?). I have attached a small (~1k) .gif file
> illustrating this. I could forgive them if exceed was free software, but its
> definately commercial.
> 
> 
I too use Exceed and have wondered the same thing. Looking through the
manuals I never found anything resembling a copyright statement for
anything dealing with BSD, not for the daemon, nor for any source code
which I am sure, since it is inetd, there may be at least some of. Of
course I could be wrong about that.

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