This is from siliconvalley.com, pretty cute after all of the trash talk from
M$.
"Just two days after it denied the existence of any such software at
Hotmail, Microsoft on Friday acknowledged that it does indeed use the
FreeBSD open-source operating system on the servers that manage the
Web-based e-mail service, and in several versions of its Windows software as
well. An ironic admission, following as it does Redmond's new "Shared
Source" initiative, and its criticism of certain provisions of the GNU
General Public License that it says pose "inherent security risks and can
force intellectual property into the public domain." While Microsoft says
FreeBSD is still in use in its Hotmail servers simply because it hadn't yet
switched the machines over to Windows, a Microsoft employee contacted by The
Wall Street Journal said Redmond has deliberately kept FreeBSD in parts of
Hotmail because of its technical superiority over Windows."
Tony
Henry A. Sutter
Hillsborough County Schools
Title 1
901 E. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, Florida, 33602
Ph# 813.272.4613 Fx# 813.272.4434
sutter_h@popmail.firn.edu
"You expect me to build a memonic memory device with ..stone knives and
bearskins" SPOCK
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