A scroll of mail from "David A. Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon,
22 Oct 2001 11:52:24 +1300
Read it? y
> I believe that MS pulled a fair bit of networking code off one of the free BSD 
>variants for use in NT.  They'd rip stuff off Linux as well but the GPL (license) 
>won't let them, which is why they complain about it.

They used a lot of the BSD code in the winsock.  You can find it if
you open ftp.exe in a text editor.  There are strings saying
"copyright regents of the university of california".  It's legal to do
that with BSD code, however.

dave
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