[Gllug] just preaching to the converted !

[Nix]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Tethys whispered secretively:
> 
> Chris Hunter writes:
> 
>>This is why there is still stolen TCP/IP code in the Windows kernel
> 
> No, there isn't. Indeed, there never was. At one time, they used the
> BSD networking code, but it was hardly stolen -- the license explicitly
> allows for it to be used like that. These days, they've rewritten their
> IP stack from scratch. AFAIK, the only BSD code left is in the FTP client.

ping? tracert (ick)?

> I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy, but incorrectly accusing MS
> of stealing code doesn't help anyone.

Agreed, this isn't stolen --- not that MS improved it much, either. It
seems to have been a straight port.

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