[zeugma]

heh--first FTP, and now GIF. Next thing you know, they'll just dump NTFS and go ext3....

 

Not to mention the TCP/IP stack they lifted from BSD years ago. 

[rzeznikj at stout]

...and "cleverly" disguised as ftp.exe

[DesScorp]

Ok, time to play devil's advocate...

Not to mention the TCP/IP stack they lifted from BSD years ago

Under the BSD license, they were allowed to. As long as you credit the BSD devs when you use their code, you're in the clear.

As for this story...ESR is making much fuss about nothing. MS didn't intentionally put the code in the app; the previous ownership did. Now that they know this, you can be assured ESR's code will go out the window.

Oh, and I do get tired of ESR parroting his expertise. This is the guy, after all, that predicted MS would be in serious financial trouble by 2002. After I read that interview, I've taken his words with a grain of salt ever since.

[Golden Eagle]

Typical BS from you. Microsoft didn't "lift" it from anyone, they bought it from another company named Spider. You can read it here from one of the admins at freebsd.org, or try some actual research yourself:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-newbies/2003-September/000808.html

Q: Is it true that Microsoft uses BSD's Stack?

A: No, it's not true. For a while we thought it was, but we proved to be incorrect. Microsoft's network stack was written by a Scottish company called Spider.