Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:06:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: stork@QNET.COM (Heredity Choice) Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), jswarner@uswest.net (Joe Warner), kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <200011070007.RAA26136@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <000201c04837$07d4ed90$66c6ddd1@STORK> from "Heredity Choice" at Nov 06, 2000 01:17:55 PM
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> www.mslinux.org is obviously a spoof, but very clever and amusing. The GPL > would not allow Microsoft to pirate Linux code and sell it Microsoft style. > > At least I don't think so, but I once read that WINNT uses the Mach > microkernel, which has a license very similar to the GPL. Can anybody > comment? Microsoft claimed that NT had a "microkernel architecture"; it really doesn't, but that was the set of buzzwords that were popular and "modern" aqt the time. I guess you could claim that having a huge number of VXDs could, in a wild stretch, be referred to as a "microkernel architecture". NT is definitely not based on MACH; its closest relative is VMS (same architect). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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