[XCSSA] Re: [SATLUG] email retention

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On Saturday 26 May 2007 15:13, Don Wright wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2007 14:46:20 -0500, Aaron Hackney <aaron@aaronhackney.com>
>
> wrote:
> >Henry Crockett wrote:
> >> OK, here's what you do:
> >> 1. Buy 2 file cabinets, fill the drawers with plastic bags of shredded
> >>    paper. Then lock the drawers & throw away the key.
>
>  ...
>
> >> 5. If anyone ever presses you hard say that the email that they need is
> >> in the remote storage warehouse because that file cabinet was full. You
> >> are unsure which warehouse because that isn't your job.
> >
> >Sounds like something straight from the BOFH archives :)
>
> Actually it's pretty much what MS did to avoid anti-trust convictions on
> email they should have retained and provided to the court. On the other
> hand, they have recently admitted copying concepts from Linux for their
> Windows Server 2008, so perhaps they can't even innovate being evil.
>   --Don

They did the same thing when transitioning from WinNT4 to Win2000.  The NT4 
TCP/IP  stack (pre SP6a) was the same IP stack that Win95 used (which was 
based on a third party's IP stack which had BSD code in it).  Later MS took 
newer parts of the BSD TCP/IP stack directly and implemented that in NT4
(SP6a)/Win2k and greater.  This gave them a much more robust networking stack 
(and OS) while also giving them internal hooks for things like pf (which 
ultimately showed up as the Windows firewall, et al), without having to admit 
anything or even give credit to BSD for all their hard work.

So yeah.. Microsoft likes pure open source licenses like BSD that lets them 
take and give nothing back.. they just don't like GPL style licensing, which 
would require that they "give something back" to the world.

Want to find evidence of BSD code in Windows?  From the C: prompt, just do 
this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32 >findstr /i /m “calif” *exe
then.. if you have Cygwin installed, the smoking gun:
C:\WINDOWS\system32 >find /i “calif” finger.exe ftp.exe nslookup.exe rcp.exe
rsh.exe
;)

Tweeks
p.s. For more info on Microsoft's use of BSD's TCP/IP code can be found here:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357