RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Les Hughes
Reminds me of one of my tutors - "To copy from one source is to plagiarise, to copy from many is research" > -Original Message- > From: Doug Bateman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 June 2002 07:16 > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: RE: Interesting quote > > > > just like

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Doug Bateman
> just like the BSD tcp/ip code in windows. MS is very good at taking the > best bits of free software and running away with it. They should do it > more often. One of my CS professors (who's now a full professor at Carnegie Mellon) used to always say "One good thief is worth 10 good engineers."

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
> - Leo, who's thinking how nice it'd be to be able to plug in mod_webapp > into that IIS > HA! -Andy, who will laugh when Leo gets Code Red III or IV or whatever. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Leo Simons
just like the BSD tcp/ip code in windows. MS is very good at taking the best bits of free software and running away with it. They should do it more often. > Struth! It gets better! > > What next? IIS -> Help -> About "(c) 1998 ASF" That'd be the day yeah. It'd solve a lot of security probl

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Les Hughes
Struth! It gets better! What next? IIS -> Help -> About "(c) 1998 ASF" That'd be the day > > Yes. IIRC, The IE that came with windows originally (That didn't do > jack) was just Mosaic, which at the time > had been recently acquired from NCSA, where Anderssen used to > work. So > ess

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
> > >I guess they dropped the parts from Spyglass - wasn't the first IE just a >rebranded spyglass browser? > > > Yes. IIRC, The IE that came with windows originally (That didn't do jack) was just Mosaic, which at the time had been recently acquired from NCSA, where Anderssen used to work. S

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 6/24/02 11:29 AM, "Santiago Gala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro wrote: > >> Heh, that's funny. Thanks for pointing it out, I would never have imagined >> that. >> >> > It has been there since the very beginning. I remember seeing it back in > Netscape 2/3 times

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Santiago Gala
Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro wrote: >Heh, that's funny. Thanks for pointing it out, I would never have imagined >that. > > It has been there since the very beginning. I remember seeing it back in Netscape 2/3 times, when Explorer was barely used at all (95/96, I can't remember). (...) >>

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
Heh, that's funny. Thanks for pointing it out, I would never have imagined that. Un saludo, Alex. > -Mensaje original- > De: Les Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Enviado el: martes 18 de junio de 2002 15:37 > Para: 'Jakarta General List' > Asunto: RE: Interesting quote > > > Er