In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Keith Windsor
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on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:07:46 -0400
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> "skydweller" <homeguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> DFS wrote:
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> Ars at FOSSCamp: revolutionizing the command line with Hotwire
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>> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/10/29/ars-at-fosscamp-revolutionizing-the-command-line-with-hotwire
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>>>> Even Microsoft has decided that it needed to catch up. Everyone uses
>>>> the|a command line.
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>>> "Heavily inspired by Microsoft Powershell..."
>>>
>>> ho hum. So what else is new?
>>>
>>> Rhetorical question: what technology in the Linux/OSS world isn't
>>> "inspired by", "borrowed from", "based on", "implementation of" a
>>> Microsoft app or other commercial app or technology?
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>> I'll answer a rhetorical question with another.
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>> Who "borrowed" TCP/IP from whom?
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> What! Besides the PowerShell features, did those linux bastards steal the
> TCP/IP stack from someone too? Because it sure wasn't Microsoft that
> "borrowed" someone TCP/IP stack.
The original TCP/IP stack is arguably from the Woolongong
group, on Unix. However, a quick Google indicates that the
first implementation may have been PC/IP from MIT, which
was the basis of the now-defunct company FTP Software, Inc.
KA9Q is the second implementation, and is now largely
useless but may be of interest to historians.
http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/
Microsoft should patent TCP/IP at some point; the results
would be interesting. ;-) However, a quick perusal of
/usr/src/linux/net/ipv4 didn't show anything other than the
rather enigmatic name 'INET' and a GPLv2 license message.
I can't say whom it came from.
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> http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357
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> [quote]
> I worked at Microsoft for ten years, most of it on the core Windows NT/2000
> (hereafter referred to as NT) networking code. As such I briefly dealt with
> the Hotmail team, mostly to hear them complain about the lameness of the
> telnet daemon in NT (a valid point). I do know that when Microsoft bought
> Hotmail, the email system was entirely running on FreeBSD, and Microsoft
> immediately set about trying to migrate it to NT, and it took many years to
> do so. Now it seems that the transition is not complete. Well, what are you
> gonna do.
> On the other hand, I know a lot about the TCP/IP stack that is running on
> NT. Here is a short history of it (some of this may also be told in the book
> How the Web Was Won, but I haven't read it):
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