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Microsoft Services for Unix and OpenBSD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reduce-reuse-recycle dept.

ubiquitin writes "If you use strings on Microsoft's Services for Unix (SFU) interoperability suite which was developed by Interex you find that it is largely composed of source from the OpenBSD 3.0 source tree according to a recent deadly.org article."

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  1. Re:What's your point? by DjReagan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The point is that Microsoft claimed they were buying a SCO license so they could use it for their "Services for Unix", not as a way of bankrolling SCO's efforts to FUD linux.

    This shows that the Services for Unix aren't derived from SCO sources, and therefore MS lied.

    Or something.

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  2. Re:This proves it... by josepha48 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If MS owns 90% of the desktop market share or roughly there abouts, and they include BSD code in their OS, then how can BSD be dying??? Its not dying its being integrated into Microsoft code. It will never die now, it will forever go on as part os MS.

    This is why MS hates the Linux, because of the GPL. If MS were to be caught integrating Linux code into MS then they would be violating the GPL. With the BSD license they don't have to worry, they just keep the License in the file. That's why SCO also hates the BPL, beacuse they can't just integrate Linux code into SCO. Hmm but they arlready did that didn't they?

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