[Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight

[Pete Ryland]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:22:19AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 03:04, Ian Norton wrote:
> > If memory serves (which it may well not) alot of the first versions of
> > the NT kernels were largly written by a former developer of one of the
> > early BSD projects, some may feel that bits of old nt are kind of like
> > bits of unices but
> 
> I won't claim that you are wrong - I didn't know this.
> 
> But Windows NT was developed by Dave Cutler, who was hired from DEC.
> Add one letter to VMS and you get ..... WNT!

Microsoft have now actually begun to acknowledge code they have taken from
Unix.  For example, see:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/copyright.asp?frame=true

Pete
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