[XCSSA] Re: [SATLUG] email retention

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> 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
>
>   
I tried this on my wife's W2K system, without cygwin installed, and got 
the following:
finger.exe
ftp.exe
nslookup.exe
pxhpinst.exe
rcp.exe
rsh.exe

The only difference is the pxhpinst.exe which is Picasa from Google.  
Well at least they stole something reliable.  Peace, Dennis

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