apologies / replacement slur :)

[Michal Guerquin]

On 2003-01-24 at 14:47, Andrew Gorcester wrote:

>But think of the scandal!  I can see the /. headlines now...
>
>What do you mean, Win2k had traces of BSD code?  I mean, I'm not arguing
>with you, I'm just curious.  Did Win2k had unix elements that weren't
>present in previous versions of NT?

I recall that the ftp.exe and/or ping.exe binaries in Windows
95, and 98 (perhaps ME and NT as well) contain the BSD copyright
notice. Here's an article in Daemon News that talks about this:

  http://www.daemonnews.org/200108/dadvocate.html

The fun part is:

  $ strings /C:/FTP.EXE | grep Calif
  @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.


~ Michal
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