[Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight

[Ian Northeast]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> 
> 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

I had heard that much of the NT IP stack was based on BSD, which is of
course perfectly legal. The inclusion of a University of California
copyright notice in the above tends to support this.

Regards, Ian


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