Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail
Yes, FreeBSD does use different licenses. Most BSD licenses do. They run off a BSD license and is much different then GPL. Meanwhile, the fact that Micro$HAFT has to rely on a *nix machine period is a victory for OpenSource period! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Us Vi!" Uptime: 8:36AM up 6 days, 22:28, 7 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 | er, i don't wish to be pedantic but i believe that hotmail is using some | freebsd installations which i believe (could be misinformed) have different | licence situation than linux? i don't think linux should claim ground that | isn't strictly it's own, i wouldn't have thought that this would serve 'the | cause' | | flame me if i'm wrong :-) | bascule | | | haveOn Tuesday 26 June 2001 9:00 pm, you wrote: | > Edward Barrow wrote: | > > It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan | > > to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet) | > | > It will probably stop working when they do. | --
Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail
At 07:57 PM 6/26/2001, Paul wrote: >It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:20:17 +0100 when bascule wrote: > >They tried to port it to Win NT, but that failed. The amount of addresses was >too much for it. >Paul > That is embarrassing. .::Wall$treet::.
Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail
It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:20:17 +0100 when bascule wrote: They tried to port it to Win NT, but that failed. The amount of addresses was too much for it. Paul >er, i don't wish to be pedantic but i believe that hotmail is using some >freebsd installations which i believe (could be misinformed) have different >licence situation than linux? i don't think linux should claim ground that >isn't strictly it's own, i wouldn't have thought that this would serve 'the >cause' > >haveOn Tuesday 26 June 2001 9:00 pm, you wrote: >> Edward Barrow wrote: >> > It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan >> > to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet) >> >> It will probably stop working when they do. -- When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize than to get permission. -Grace Murray Hopper http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail
Edward Barrow wrote: > > > > It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan to migrate >it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet) It will probably stop working when they do.
Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:24, Edward Barrow wrote: > On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:31 PM, Jose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hotmail was designed to be used from any browser. You can still go > > to www.hotmail.com to read, answer, write and save your emails. > > While it is easier to use Outlook Express, you can use any > > browser. > > It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and > plan to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet) Actually, it was designed to run on FreeBSD, before M$ bought it. M$ tried to switch it to their very own Win NT 4 (the latest at the time), but found that it couldn't take the load and they would have to quadruple the number of servers being used to make it run well. They have been claiming that since summer (northern hemisphere) last year it has been running on Win2000. Recently, however, they have admitted that certain key parts are still running on FreeBSD. Some insiders have said that MS run many servers on FreeBSD, since Windows just can't handle their tasks. More information can be found in this Wall Street Journal article: http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] Hotmail Mail
On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:31 PM, Jose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hotmail was designed to be used from any browser. You can still go to > www.hotmail.com to read, answer, write and save your emails. While it is > easier to use Outlook Express, you can use any browser. > It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet)
