http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010604/tc/tech_att_microsoft_dc_1.html AT&T is going after MS for patent infringement..now if we could get others to get them to cough up $$$ for the things they have embraced and extended..then I would be a happy camper. I still wish there was a way to make them strip all the open source software from their products. Windows would be even less useful without a TCP/IP stack. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Ya, stripping out the tcp/ip stack would kinda kill .net/hailstorm dead in it's tracks. Kinda like a headshot in UT - the body might keep running for a bit, but know where to go! :) On Monday 04 June 2001 08:03 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010604/tc/tech_att_microsoft_dc_1.html
AT&T is going after MS for patent infringement..now if we could get others to get them to cough up $$$ for the things they have embraced and extended..then I would be a happy camper. I still wish there was a way to make them strip all the open source software from their products. Windows would be even less useful without a TCP/IP stack.
Is it confirmed that they took their NT TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD, or is
this just a rumour? What is the source for it? And if they did,
wouldn't this be allowed under the FreeBSD license?
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Corvin Russell
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:34:37AM -0400, Corvin Russell wrote:
Is it confirmed that they took their NT TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD, or is this just a rumour? What is the source for it? And if they did, wouldn't this be allowed under the FreeBSD license?
Nobody besides M$ itself can _confirm_ where they took TCP/IP stack but I have read reports of bugs in M$ stack which were the same as in the original BSD implementation. The answer to the second question is positive, the FreeBSD license does allow this. -Kastus
-- Corvin Russell
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