Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:31:59 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [offtopic] funny BSD people | From | sinster@balltech ... |
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Sprach Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > > Net-2 was based on BSD's stack. They wanted our math emulator, > > we wanted their stack. We traded. But we've since gone to Net-3. [...] > The stack is original, so stop doing down the work of Ross Biro and Don > Becker. It was done _from scratch_. At the time it looked like *BSD was going > to be killed by the AT&T lawsuit and we already knew the licenses were > incompatible. > > Matthais Urlich (whose name I always spell wrong so I will apologise in > advance) ported the BSD Net/2 stack to Linux as a side thing but it was > never part of Linux proper
That must be it then. I know that one of our stacks was taken from BSD, (and I know it made it into the main line for at least a little while), but as I said in my original email (which portion you deleted), I'm unsure which of our IP stacks was taken from them.
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