If you had access to the DNS server dlls and opened them up in an Hex Editor you would find embedded a copyright notice referring to the Trustees of the University of Southern California, Berkeley. It goes on the say that MS DNS is based on Bind from the BSD Unix distro. Another eye opener is Internet Explorer. IE is basically a Windows port of NCSA Mosaic. That is why MS have to give away IE for free. The Internet as been around longer than Microsoft, therefore MS have play by the rules. I would hate to think would the Internet would be like had it been a MS invention. For one thing I bet it would work for more than 2 or 3 days at a time and for another thing it would probably cost a small fortune for anybody to license the technology. Instead of freeserve we would have "pay-the-earth-serve". There would be no e-commerce because the Internet would have more security holes in than a culendar. The net is the most secure medium in the world be imagine what it would be like if MS had a hand in its development

Any comments? Am I being blind to some obvious problems I might have caused?

Thanks

Mike Turnbull

St Mary's School, Shaftesbury,

If what you say is true and I am sure it is, then the world must be made aware of this issue. The more I hear things like this about MS the more I hate it and its products. Regards M Gural