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[Gabriel Klein]

Some code of Windows is based/taken from the UNIX and LINUX
environnement system.
(Like some DNS, TCP and Internet Explorer things)

Can we use Windows or have we to pay some licencing fee to SCO to be
able to use Windows?

Best regards,
Gabriel

[Bill Vermillion]

In article <3f1ce2ea$0$22095$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>,
Gabriel Klein <gabriel.klein.NOSPAM@epfl.ch> wrote:

>Some code of Windows is based/taken from the UNIX and LINUX
>environnement system.
>(Like some DNS, TCP and Internet Explorer things)

Actually much of the TCP came from BSD and a strings on many of the
net utilities in the past would reveal the Regents strings.
That has gone from almost all of those programs now as the word
spread.

>Can we use Windows or have we to pay some licencing fee to SCO to be
>able to use Windows?

Much of the TCP/IP came from Berkeley and USRG in the early '80s
and ISTR that is was either BBN or Lachman who did much of that
work. {I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong} All that
code is wide open and not covered by anything more than the Regents
copyrights.

At one of the Usenix conferences I was at in either '86 or '91
they had a map of the UCB campus network with over 8000 machines.
That really showed how well a heterogenous network could operate.
My view is that MS and Novell were about the last to embrace those
concepts and much of the early networking was homogenous.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com