[Sussex] Ok the gauntlets on the floor!

[Geoffrey Teale]

John,

Whether Microsoft do use BSD IP or not is neither here nor there - they 
have publically stated a preference for the BSD and MIT licenses over 
GPL.  This may have a lot to do with the GPL being a corner stone of the 
only technology group to seriously threaten Microsofts monopoloy since 
the early days of OS/2. 

For the record more than one commercial UNIX and several embedded OS's 
make no secret of their use of the BSD TCP/IP stack.  Linux does not.

-- 
Geoff Teale


John D. wrote:

>Thanks for the clarification chap's. I sort of figured that there was a
>difference, but the extent of that difference had eluded me.
>
>Not really having put too much thought to it, I suppose that the GPL is
>probably better for interlectual improvement, as opposed to using the
>BSD ploy/approach i.e. I understand that the TCP/IP stack in windows
>originates in BSD. How true that is, is probably anyones guess.
>  
>