Re: [offtopic] funny BSD people

fooler (fooler@skyinet.net)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:28:55 +0800


Dancer wrote:

> Dan Hollis wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > BSD people agree that Linux stole the BSD IP stack:
> > > Chortle. Every OS has its kooks.
> > > The Linux TCP/IP stack was written by Ross Biro, and other people have in
> > > turn improved on it.
> >
> > Its quite amusing, in email Brian F. Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> is quite
> > insistent that Alan "stole bsd code". Actually I wonder if thats
> > actionable libel.
>
> Depends on your country. In most places, probably yes. I don't know if
> it'd be worth it or not...There'd be a lot of witnesses and affadavits
> to dig up.
>
> D

stealing a code and reverse engineered it for the sake of improvement is a good
thing.

fooler.

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