From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:42:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:42:16 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:6024 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:42:09 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: hps@intermeta.de, "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , 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 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <0106201553250F.00776@localhost.localdomain> <9gsch3$ksc$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <9gsch3$ksc$1@forge.intermeta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106211241010A.00845@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 21 June 2001 04:50, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Rob Landley 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