Sorry, people (actually, not very sorry :))) ) When the Evil Empire gets caught in its hypocrisy, outright lies, etc, AND the story gets broken by the capitalist bastion of WSJ, it�s just too good to pass up: http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm open source code in their products!! (how "unAmerican", as Allchin would say) I really like to know the technical weaknesses of W2K DNS such that MS cant�t use it and must instead use FreeBSD+BIND, even now. (Where would Hotmail be using FreeBSD+BIND? My guess is in the DNS boxes that their outbound mail gateways use for sending Hotmail to Internet. With 100 million mail accounts sending mail, one can imagine that BIND is answering recursive DNS queries at a rate of several 1000/sec. They certainly have many FreeBSD+BIND boxes in that role. I wonder what they�re using for outbound mail gateways?). At least this is another indication the the BSD tcp/ip stack is, and has been, the best available (as Ballmer has said: "Take the best out their and make it ours") aka "MS innovation" :))). With all the $20B+ in cash, and the best and brighest they can hire, they still use free, open source software in critical products and roles and then lie about. What lovely a lovely corporate culture. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
