From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 24 22:41:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB53437B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:41:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E40D43EB2 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0082.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.82] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18cK09-0003F8-00; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:41:14 -0800 Message-ID: <3E323133.5D974199@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:39:47 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... (was on freebsd-questions, moved to freebsd-chat) References: <3E31C8B9.13708.600FE72D@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a484522d56ce6744c53c2860a1e234d66c387f7b89c61deb1d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Langille wrote: > On 24 Jan 2003 at 14:02, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Even if it wasn't, Microsoft paid for the port of the BSD code by BSD > > people (rumor has it that they paid $3M for it). > > Does the above mean that MS hired BSD people to port the code to the > MS platform? The postings on Usenet at the time was that the work was done by former CSRG people working at BSDI at the time, under a contract between Microsoft and BSDI. I will emphasize that this was the rumor at the time, and that even though no representatives of BSDI contradicted it at the time, though they were aware of the postings, I do not have personal knowledge of the deal, if any. Your best bet would be to fire off an email to one of the BSDI folks at the time the Windows NT 3.51 release occurred. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message