Geeky in a different way: Aha, Cerebus = Kerberos! So the "k" is hard in Greek? And how is the Latin version pronounced? "Serebus" or "Kerebus"?
Geeky in the computer kinda way: I want to point out a distinction in free|open source software that Microsoft in particular uses. The BSD license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html) allows others to use such licensed software however they see fit, as long as credit is given. The GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html), however, requires that software built with GPL software must be GPL as well. That is why M$ claims the GPL is a "virus" and "un-American" (???), because they would be forced to give it away. Note that you can do a search for the text string "bsd" on Win9x machines and see that string occur in some of the TCP/IP binaries (ftp for sure, others?). Kerberos is licensed under the BSD, hence M$ uses it as long as they embed the acknowledgement. So note that Microsoft does not rant that "open source software" is bad, but "GPL software" is bad. The so called study by the AdTI due out tomorrow does not make that distinction. If M$ did finance that study, this will blow up in their faces. John Hebert --- Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you glance quickly, or your computer is slow > enough, > when opening Internet Explorer, you see an > acknowledgement > fly by -- that it's based on Mosaic, freeware > produced by a > team headed by the gentleman who went on to found > Netscape. > > Microsoft hates open source as long as it doesn't > use it. > > Of course the name Kerberos is apt, the guard dog > from > Greek mythology. > > Choppy > > At 10:15 AM 6/5/02 -0500, you wrote: > > >The login process for Windows 2000 is handled by an > >open source program known as Kerberos, you may > >recognize that name as it is also used in most > Linux > >distributions. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
