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True, but on the other hand, did Microsoft any MIT/BSD Software at that time? I think it was especially against the GPL, but against a complete different Busin

• mehrdadn 6y ago
  No, but I didn't claim they would've actively embraced MIT/BSD either.
• sgift 6y ago
  Afair the first IP stack of either Windows 95 oder Windows 98 was the one from FreeBSD(?). They rewrote it later, but there was an acknowledgement in the docs for a while. So, they at least used it when needed. (My memory may be fuzzy, it's been a long time after all ..)
  • johannes1234321 6y ago
    Yes, the IP stack was derived from BSD as well as Internet Explorer was derived from NCSA Mosaic however they didn't publish those things under open licenses. (Which isn't required by BSD etc.)
• nineteen999 6y ago
  > Did Microsoft any MIT/BSD Software at that time? Many of the TCP/IP utilities (telnet, nslookup etc) in earlier versions of Windows were based on BSD code.
  • nix23 6y ago
    I did not say they where allergic against free code/work, i said they where allergic against a complete different Business where you sell just the service and not the code. EDIT: And i wrote "the made no mit/bsd code" but adapting it...just like Apple