[Tfug] Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pa y rolyalties

[Jude Nelson]

On 5/17/07, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/17/07, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > M$ took their networking code from BSD, not VMS, as I recall.
> >
>
> Their TCP/IP code.  Yes, I have heard that before.
>
> I thought Windows networking was partially inspired by a bunch of guys
> they hired from DEC.  I don't know though, maybe that was just a
> rumour...
>
> I do know that a bunch of people who worked on OpenVMS were hired by
> Microsoft...


You're right, NT (and derivatives) seems to have a lot of VMS concepts in
it.  I'm not sure which concepts or code are used, though.  I guess HP could
sue M$ for infringing on their IP :)

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