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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 16 Jul 1996 10:22:44 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) wrote:

> 1.	At the time Linux needed networking the BSD folks were all rather
> 	busy with a little lawsuit with AT&T and BSD code was best assumed
> 	contaminated

The networking code was always out of question.  It didn't exist in
32V UNIX (and no AT&T lawyer would ever have been successful in
claiming this :).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)