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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!elmira.functional.com!grail From: Giao Nguyen <grail@functional.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: *BSD Unification? Date: 8 Apr 1997 14:37:45 GMT Organization: FIS Technologies Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5idl7p$85a$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <860029226.1885@dejanews.com> <5i0e9j$1qc$1@daily.bbnplanet.com> <3343CF60.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> <5i171n$erp@panix2.panix.com> <5i1aav$qd@web.nmti.com> <E8A8qs.HB2@sep.hamburg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elmira.functional.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38737 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5781 comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:58 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2956 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1223 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Helge Oldach <hmo@sep.hamburg.com> wrote: : In <5i1aav$qd@web.nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: : | [BSD] networking [is] a relatively easy module to steal, if you just : | look at the number of people who've done it (including, by some : | rumors, good old Microsoft). : "Steal" is a bit oversimplified in this particular case. :-) If memory serves me right, Microsoft did not steal the socket library. I believe they licensed it around December of 95. Giao