Microsoft Services for Unix and OpenBSD

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."

Comments

Re:What's your point?

[Deagol]

I dunno... maybe the whole "innovation" campaign spouted during the trial? Yeah -- swiping code (legality be damned) sure is innovative.

Or maybe this is a setup to bash the BSD license. The GPL wouldn't allow such horrible things to happen. :)

Wooo

[Creepy Crawler]

And they missed some of the best parts..

1: Xwindows server
2: True INIT runlevels with windows reg-startips inserted as init scripts
3: Samba server (heh heh heh)
4: Remapping of the drive to conform with the standard of /bin , /sbin , /etc , /home (or /usr/home)......

The tools are nice, but it still feels like a half-ass effort with Microsoft. I'm still somewhat happy that they tried.

Obvious

[essdodson]

To me it's obvious that MS realizes how valuable it is to work with the BSD community. Almost makes you wonder if they would work with the Linux community if they weren't such rabid revolutionaries all following in RMS's footsteps.

Re:This proves it...

[Stephen Samuel]

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.

Just like bits of my great-grandfather live on in G.W. Bush. (gee, doesn't that make me feel better??? No!)

Although I agree that BSD lives on, it's not because of the organ transplants into Microsoft's code base.