[HECnet] TCP/IP experts?

On 16 Feb 2013, at 20:21, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2013-02-17 02:14, Clem Cole wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net <mailto:b4 at gewt.net>> wrote: The GNU project would never borrow userspace code. Careful here -- a lot of the original Gnu code was borrowed. Gnu Emacs was a rewrite Goslings (CMU) Emacs. Well, to be honest Gosling's Emacs is just a rewrite of the TENEX TECO Emacs, which returns us back to RMS again... (And I was never very fond of Gosmacs with it's Mocklisp. Pretty awful.) :-) Simply, there is a bunch of the Gnu original code that has hazy provenance. Sadly, I have been part of the some the torts associated with some of these. But no one should try to say they are holier than anyone else. That said, my experience is that by the 1990s the Gnu project was better about understanding provenance, but in the 1970s and 1980s, they took what ever they could get. The GNU Project didn't even exist in the 70s, exce t perhaps in the brain of RMS. I remember when the GNU Manifesto came out. (The GNU Project was started in 1983 now that I checked up on it.) However, I was expecting someone to bring up the question of what GNU have to do with this. We're talking about the TCP/IP of Linux. Linux is a project of Linus Thorvalds. Still not part of GNU. -) The kernel is GPL-licensed though, with a lot off people vilifying those that don't conform to a GPL-only original code policy. ;) I kinda lump kernel developers, the GNU project, and the FSF project together... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol