What part of Win2K is using FreeBSD code? It's been common knowledge that
most of the IP command line utilities are FreeBSD based, I don't think they
have denied that.
The Hotmail denial is just plain dumb. That they thought they wouldn't get
caught is worse. If they had said it up front with the right spin, it
wouldn't have been an issue: "All of the ...really important bits.... of
Hotmail have been moved to Win2K, allowing us to reap the benefits of .NET,
bla, bla, bla. However, we have left in place some legacy boxes serving basic
utility functions such as DNS. These will be replaced as needed..."
Oh well, it's good they get knocked down a notch every now and then.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: FreeBSD still at Hotmail, DNS, and in their OS
products
> 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
>
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