From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 15 05:31:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA23951 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 05:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA23946 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 05:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id HAA16280; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 07:31:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199707151231.HAA16280@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: 4.4BSD licensing question freebsd/netbsd/openbsd/linux To: okram@notwork.net (razzle dazzle root beer) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 07:31:13 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199707151101.HAA11230@foo.notwork.net> from razzle dazzle root beer at "Jul 15, 97 07:01:39 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, razzle dazzle root beer said: > I was talking with a friend recently regarding Linux's past poor network performance/ability and he said that > the reason it was bad was that they had to do their own network code, they could not take the berkeley code so > they made all the same mistakes over again. > > My question is, why couldn't linux take that code, and why could freebsd, netbsd and openbsd take it? Probably due to the suit of AT&T against BSDI and UCB. >From what I understand, the current versions of Linux do use berkeley networking code now. Paul. -- I was going to mail it for your birthday, but then I couldn't find it and by the time I found it, it was too late and I was embarrassed to send it to you. --from "Excuses, Excuses" *the* compendium of excuses by Leigh W. Rutledge