Subject: Re: Preventative security features?
To: None <tech-security@NetBSD.org>
From: Ken Seefried <ken@seefried.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/11/2004 10:05:36
Hubert Feyrer writes:
> there were rumours before that Microsoft uses a
> BSD-based network stack. Go figure.
FWIW...not a rumour. Microsoft acknowledged that the NT TCP/IP stack was
BSD based (circa BSD 4.4, AFAIK), at least in part. They apparently rewrote
everything from scratch in the Win2k timeframe, tho.
It's one of the sticks the GPL folks always drag out with which to try and
flog the BSD license.
Ken