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Message-ID: <20050329070243.GA12289@sivokote.iziade.m$>
Date: Tue Mar 29 07:59:56 2005
From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: Reverse engineering the Windows TCP stack
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:18:04AM -0600, James Longstreet wrote:
> I don't know if it's credit per se, but I just ran strings on XP's
> finger.exe:
>
> > <snip>
> > s_perror
> > MSWSOCK.dll
> > @(#) Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
> > All rights reserved.
>
> I've done it with ftp.exe and a few others as well, I'd imagine most of
> those utilities were borrowed from BSD.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:-UWnNbtDLhoJ:www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/20/1019233287416.html+gates+gpl+cancer&hl=en
Steve Ballmer, told a reporter that a competing "open-source" system called
Linux was "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual-property sense to
everything it touches".
but obviously not all free software is bad.
reusing bsd code is good thing according to m$.
--
where do you want bill gates to go today?
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