Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself. | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:41:01 -0400 |
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On Thursday 21 June 2001 04:50, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Rob Landley <landley@webofficenow.com> writes: > >Ooh, do I get to say "I told you so"? (LinuxToday buried my submission > > way back under a blurb about caldera, but still...) > > And the quote of "stealing the TCP stack from BSD" is still wrong.
Everybody took the BSD tcp stack, including VMS and OS/2. It was the first major lump of code they separated when AT&T started making legal threats around 1983.
Did I say stealing? The berkeley people gave it away for free...
> And the web browser they have today derives from NCSA Mosaic as > prominently displayed in the "About" box of every single IE version > out. No TBL here.
You take microsoft's word for things?
Read this:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/january/new0122d.htm
Various other coverage:
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/news/0120/22aspy.html http://www4.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_587.html
And two years later, spyglass still hadn't learned their lesson:
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,1014310,00.html
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