There was an article today in the Wall Street Journal about this, too. I
had to laugh. Even better was the fact that "Marshall Kirk McKusick, a
leader of the FreeBSD development team, said, 'I am apalled at the way
Microsoft bashes open source on the one hand, while depending on it for
its business on the other.'"
"...one employee said M$ deliberately kept parts of FreeBSD in parts of
Hotmail because of its technical superiority over Windows..."
Russell
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_its_ (no apostrophe) means "the thing that it owns"
_it's_ (with apostrophe) means "it is"
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>From: herrold <herrold@owlriver.com>
>To: <slug@nks.net>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] M$ uses BSD
>Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2001, 15:53
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, H Sutter wrote:
>
>> "Just two days after it denied the existence of any such software at
>> Hotmail, Microsoft on Friday acknowledged that it does indeed use the
>> FreeBSD open-source operating system on the servers that manage the
>
> Heck, they've used Berkely license code forever. Open a DOS box and
> run:
>
> find "egent" ftp.exe
>
> ... Any questions?
>
> -- Russ
>
>
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