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Comment Re:Microsoft has used opensource code before... (Score 1) 119

...if you're in Windows you can see traces of BSD throughout.

This is actually A Good Thing. OSI never got traction because there was no reference implementation of their network stack, only an ambiguous specification.

If Microsoft had had to write their own TCP/IP stack from scratch, we'd still be trying to work out the interoperability problems, and the Internet would be far smaller / less pervasive as a result.

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