Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:40:32 +0000 (UTC) |
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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> writes:
>Even if I overlook that you're effectively comparing the incomparable, >Microsoft making 370 times more than RedHat says _nothing_ about their >actual achievement in terms of software development. Should you insist
You might simply open your eyes and look around you before you utter such ridicioulous statements.
% cd /home/mirror/RFC % for i in rfc*.txt; do head -20 $i | grep -iq microsoft; if [ "x$?" = "x0" ]; then echo $i; fi; done | wc -l 102 102 1224 /tmp/rfc-log % for i in rfc*.txt; do head -20 $i | grep -iq 'red hat'; if [ "x$?" = "x0" ]; then echo $i; fi; done | wc -l % for i in rfc*.txt; do head -20 $i | grep -iq 'redhat'; if [ "x$?" = "x0" ]; then echo $i; fi; done | wc -l
So in terms of "RFC contributions" which are the established and accepted base on which to build the internet and "open software", the score is
Microsoft Corporation vs. Red Hat Inc. 102 : 0
Some examples:
rfc1877: PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol Extensions for Name Server Addresses rfc2069/2617: An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication rfc2193: IMAP4 Mailbox Referrals rfc2237: Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages rfc2338: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol rfc2342: IMAP4 Namespace rfc2445: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) rfc2518/3253: HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV rfc2565: Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and Transport rfc2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (Yup. Microsoft) rfc2661: Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP" rfc2782: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) rfc2989: Criteria for Evaluating AAA Protocols for Network Access (Microsoft. Sun. Cisco. Nokia.)
Regards Henning
-- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de
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