Re: [Full-disclosure] Reverse engineering the Windows TCP stack

[Georgi Guninski <guninski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:18:04AM -0600, James Longstreet wrote:
> I don't know if it's credit per se, but I just ran strings on XP's
> finger.exe:
> 
> > <snip>
> > s_perror
> > MSWSOCK.dll
> > @(#) Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
> >  All rights reserved.
> 
> I've done it with ftp.exe and a few others as well, I'd imagine most of
> those utilities were borrowed from BSD.

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:-UWnNbtDLhoJ:www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/20/1019233287416.html+gates+gpl+cancer&hl=en
Steve Ballmer, told a reporter that a competing "open-source" system called
Linux was "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual-property sense to
everything it touches".

but obviously not all free software is bad.
reusing bsd code is good thing according to m$.

-- 
where do you want bill gates to go today?


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