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From: Rob Landley <landley@webofficenow.com>
To: hps@intermeta.de,
	"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:41:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0106211241010A.00845@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106201833000.1376-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> <0106201553250F.00776@localhost.localdomain> <9gsch3$ksc$1@forge.intermeta.de>
In-Reply-To: <9gsch3$ksc$1@forge.intermeta.de>

On Thursday 21 June 2001 04:50, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Rob Landley <landley@webofficenow.com> writes:
> >Ooh, do I get to say "I told you so"?  (LinuxToday buried my submission
> > way back under a blurb about caldera, but still...)
>
> And the quote of "stealing the TCP stack from BSD" is still wrong.

Everybody took the BSD tcp stack, including VMS and OS/2.  It was the first 
major lump of code they separated when AT&T started making legal threats 
around 1983.

Did I say stealing?  The berkeley people gave it away for free...

> And the web browser they have today derives from NCSA Mosaic as
> prominently displayed in the "About" box of every single IE version
> out. No TBL here.

You take microsoft's word for things?

Read this:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/january/new0122d.htm

Various other coverage:

http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/news/0120/22aspy.html
http://www4.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_587.html

And two years later, spyglass still hadn't learned their lesson:

http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,1014310,00.html

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-21 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-20 20:42 The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself Miles Lane
2001-06-20 21:33 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-20 22:31   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-20 19:53     ` Rob Landley
2001-06-21  8:50       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-21 16:41         ` Rob Landley [this message]
2001-06-20 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-20 22:33   ` Larry McVoy
2001-06-20 22:51     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-20 23:02     ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-20 23:04     ` William T Wilson
2001-06-20 23:07     ` Khalid Aziz
2001-06-21  8:46       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-21 13:48         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-21 17:32           ` Miles Lane
2001-06-20 23:16     ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-20 23:20     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-21  0:46     ` Michael Bacarella
2001-06-21 14:20       ` chuckw
2001-06-21  8:37     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-21 16:25       ` Rob Landley
2001-06-21 22:37         ` Michael Bacarella
2001-06-21 22:49           ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 11:08             ` Rob Landley
2001-06-22 18:33               ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-28 22:33                 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-21 12:57     ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-20 23:34   ` Alan Olsen
2001-06-21 10:07   ` Paul Flinders
2001-06-21 12:57     ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-21 14:01       ` Alan Cox
2001-06-23 16:29         ` watermodem
2001-06-20 22:28 ` IP_ALIAS in 2.4.x gone? Alan Olsen
2001-06-20 23:12   ` Alan Olsen
2001-06-20 23:59     ` Erik Schoenfelder
2001-06-22 10:47 ` problem with select() - 2.4.5 Thomas Speck
2001-06-22 19:53   ` Thomas Speck
2001-06-23  0:36     ` Edgar Toernig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-20 22:53 The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself Wayne.Brown
2001-06-21  7:59 ` Daniel Stone
2001-06-21 13:00 Jesse Pollard
2001-06-28 22:02 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-29 19:41   ` Lew Wolfgang
2001-06-30  1:10     ` David Schwartz
2001-06-30  1:45       ` Lew Wolfgang
2001-06-30  2:50         ` David Schwartz
2001-06-30  7:24           ` Lionel Elie Mamane
2001-06-30 14:22             ` Dmitri Pogosyan
     [not found] <51FCCCF0C130D211BE550008C724149E01165690@mail1.affiliatedhealth.org>
2001-06-21 18:21 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 18:05   ` Andreas Bombe
2001-06-26 11:46     ` john slee
2001-06-28 22:27   ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-29 20:02     ` Paul Fulghum
2001-06-22 12:36 Holzrichter, Bruce
2001-06-29 19:11 Clayton, Mark
2001-06-29 18:05 ` Rob Landley
     [not found] <87009604743AD411B1F600508BA0F95994C8DF@XOVER.dedham.mindsp eed.com>
2001-06-29 19:47 ` Android
     [not found] <fa.hs4no6v.h0k6ok@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-30 15:38 ` Ted Unangst
2001-07-02  5:14   ` Greg Rollins

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