[ale] Segue from MS threatening the community

[fd0man at gmail.com (Michael B. Trausch)]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:28 -0400, Mike Harrison wrote:

> But then, I believe (no factoids involved)  
> M$ has inherited far more from the *nix and FOSS
> community than the other way around.


There have been claims that they used the BSD sockets code for the basis
of Winsock, but I don't know how substantiated those claims are.

As I understand it, though, Windows NT is based on ideas and concepts
from a hybrid of VMS and DOS.  DOS was based on CP/M, which was (very,
very loosely) based on Unix, or so I have heard.


> Remember when M$-products didn't have TCPIP? 
> Or E-Mail/Telnet/FTP/DNS/.. 


I remember when 3rd party TCP/IP stacks were considered to be essential
software in that world... :-P

    --- Mike

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