Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:28:55 +0800 | From | fooler <> | Subject | Re: [offtopic] funny BSD people |
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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. -- Human is the most dangerous virus on this planet.
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