If they licensed the code, it's not illegal. Lots of software companies license code to anyone willing to pay the price. Nobody vilifies the other companies for doing it, so why should they vilify Microsoft?
Len --- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:35 PM Subject: Re: OT: Ill-timed failures > I am afraid he is right. If you open up some of the "new" stuff in > Windows XP, their new internet operating system, you will see a lot of > BSD code in there that they are obligated to give credit to even if > they are allowed to use it. Linux OTOH would require them to make any > code they used together with Linux code available for anyone to use. > > Microsoft is known more for buying new technology than it is for > in-house inovation. Being the biggest bully on the block, it buys > what ever it wants to stifle competition. That is why Linux is such a > thorn in its side. How do buy something they give away for free? > > On Thursday 25 October 2001 18:01, lbparis wrote: > > Dave, > > > > That's your guess, but Microsoft has been writing programs and > > operating systems for at least as long as any of the Linux > > programmers. I think they are capable of writing networking > > code without stealing anyone else's. I don't think you can > > prove what you say, so why say it? > > > > Len > > --- > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David A. Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 5:52 PM > > Subject: Re: OT: Ill-timed failures > > > > > Dave O'Brien writes: > > > > Win2k is a very good mix of Win9x and NT. It's got the > > > > driver support > > > > > > of Win9x and far more stability and the solid networking of > > > > NT. > > > > > > Quite frankly, I'd say that someone in Microsoft played with > > > > Linux or > > > > > > FreeBSD and said "Cripes, the competition makes us look like > > > > incompetent idiots. We'd better come up with something with > > > > gets us a > > > > > > little street cred." > > > > > > I believe that MS pulled a fair bit of networking code off > > > > one of the free BSD > > > > > variants for use in NT. They'd rip stuff off Linux as well > > > > but the GPL (license) > > > > > won't let them, which is why they complain about it. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > > - Dave > > > > > > David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec) > > > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ > -- > Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 > Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
