Re: [offtopic] funny BSD people

Dancer (dancer@zeor.simegen.com)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:38:23 +1000

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Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > BSD people agree that Linux stole the BSD IP stack:
> > Chortle. Every OS has its kooks.
> > The Linux TCP/IP stack was written by Ross Biro, and other people have in
> > turn improved on it.
>
> Its quite amusing, in email Brian F. Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> is quite
> insistent that Alan "stole bsd code". Actually I wonder if thats
> actionable libel.

Depends on your country. In most places, probably yes. I don't know if
it'd be worth it or not...There'd be a lot of witnesses and affadavits
to dig up.

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