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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd)
To: stork@QNET.COM (Heredity Choice)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:06:31 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein),
	jswarner@uswest.net (Joe Warner), kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway),
	chat@FreeBSD.ORG
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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
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