It most definitely is.  Check out how many MSKB article reference BSD sockets:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=BSD&num=100&as_sitesearch=support.microsoft.co
m


In fact, Microsoft has interbred with BSD twice. Not only did they use BSD as a
source for their TCP/IP code, they bought Interix a while back (which is where
Microsoft's Services For Unix comes from) and their software is built with BSD
as well.


Maybe there should be a sticker campaign... "BSD Inside".

On Wednesday, 2002-09-25 15:20 [GMT+0100=CET],
Jonathan Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Somehow I get the feeling this is another obvious theft - er,
>> borrowing -  from BSD on Windows... <g>
>
> Didn't you know?  They lifted the entire BSD networking stack, and
> trimmed it heavily to fit in the more-limited Windoze kernel.  I
> think someone actually grepped and found the BSD licence embedded in
> Windows executables.
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