On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM, aravind vijayan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When asked about microsoft's use of open source software, company > spokesperson Rick Miller told Betanews, "We do run a small percentage of > FreeBSD on our network. Our use of FreeBSD at Hotmail, however, is simply a > legacy issue from when we purchased Hotmail. Yes it is legacy because > microsoft entered the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, > called Xenix. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail#History > First reported by the Wall Street Journal, FreeBSD developer Trevor Johnson > determined that Microsoft was still using the open source operating system > for DNS hosting and also for tracking advertisements. It has also been > reported that FreeBSD software components are utilized in Microsoft > products, such as Windows 2000. BSD's TCP/IP stack, a vital communication > protocol, is rumored to have been used in several Windows operating systems, > enabling users to connect to the Internet. > Yes Microsoft used the BSD TCP/IP stack for implementing networking in their OS till MS Vista. http://gcn.com/blogs/tech-blog/2006/12/windows-vista-network-stack-not-so-new.aspx In fact if you run 'strings' on some MS Windows binaries you can see the BSD licence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(Unix) --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
