H Sutter wrote:
>
> 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."
After they bought Hotmail, MS tried to delete all the FreeBSD boxen and
replace them with Windows. The outcome could only be described as
"debacle." Needless to say, those FreeBSD boxen are still there.
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