On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:46PM -0500, David Andrews wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 13:33, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > > products derived from [BSD licensed programs] have not lasted. > Hmmm. I've always understood that the MS-Windows TCPIP implementation > is based on Berkeley TCPIP.
It is, AFAIK. This is one example GPL advocated like to trot out of a big nasty eeeeeeevil corporation taking from the open source community and not giving anything back. Personally, I believe it's a success for open source: Had M$ not done so, we'd be dealing with a continuing stream of bugs in their IP stack, and having to write programs that work around those bugs. Instead, we have at least one area where we don't have to worry about Microsoft's Midas Muffler touch.
