OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[CJ Kelley]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > my instructor told us one day when he was giving a lecture about the
> history
> > of linux and unix that windows's network layer was taken from linux. This
> > was back in the windows 9x days..so windows current network layer is no
> > longer unixes.
> >
>
> It was BSD's TCP/IP, not Unix's. This is often given as an example of
> the importance of the BSD license. Imagine the world of hurt that we'd
> be in if MS had developed their own, slightly incompatible TCP/IP
> stack. I wish that the OOo ODF interpreter had been BSD and that MS
> would have incorporated it into MSO. Or the Gecko / KHTML browser
> engines.
>

ooh. ok..he must have gotten bsd mixed up with unix then.

thanks
--cj

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