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From: hmo@sep.hamburg.com (Helge Oldach)
Subject: Re: *BSD Unification?
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:28:04 GMT
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In <5i1aav$qd@web.nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
| [BSD] networking [is] a relatively easy module to steal, if you just
| look at the number of people who've done it (including, by some
| rumors, good old Microsoft).

Not rumors, your eyes. Just do a strings(1) over the various DLLs and
EXEs...

...and of course 4.3 networking behaviour exposed.

"Steal" is a bit oversimplified in this particular case. :-)

Helge
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