These things haunt my memory from 15 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsock http://learning.lib.vt.edu/WINTCPIP/trumpwsk.html
Oh God, no! This must be why I remained an AOL user until I discovered Red Hat and got a cable modem: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-100 >From what I've read, the architecture has not improved from the early days and DRM in Vista makes things worse. Network transfers are supposed to be slower than they should be and they get worse if you play music. BSD people, we can be sure, are unimpressed but I don't know if they ever felt ripped off. I have read but can't put my finger on some general rip offs from the porting effort, where those who helped out were not happy. To someone who enjoys pain, this is all nostalgic stuff. The new rounds of rip off represented by SCO and Novell are more serious because they undo the express wishes of programmers and threaten all of our software freedom. If M$ gets away with their bogus patent threats they will be able to charge us all rent to use software that they actively hindered while it was in development. There is already evidence besides the hideous M$ Novell deal that people are paying tribute: http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/15/linux-money-for-ms/ The ability to charge rent for a thing is a close equivalent to being its owner but better in some ways. Unlike the government and industry sponsored free ride M$ got from BSD, or the pennies on the dollar software purchased from former competitors, M$ will not have to exert any effort to maintaining a taxed GNU/Linux. If they can steal GNU/Linux, they can steal any software you write in the future. It would be the biggest act of software piracy ever. By laying patent claims to ideas they would own your work and tax anyone who tried to use it. On Friday 08 August 2008, Brad Bendily wrote: > > What code does Microsoft have that belongs to Linux? I've heard that > > one. I'd like to know more. > > I always thought it was the IP stack. They had stolen or borrowed most > of the BSD network stack maybe? > bb > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
