RE: [tlug] [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISOstandard

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Of Curt Sampson
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:06 PM
 
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> > I haven't heard any complaints from BSD developers about 
> that, except 
> > that they really wish nobody knew about it because MSFT's 
> derived code 
> > is so famously buggy. ;-)
> 
> Hey, it's probably less buggy than what they would have 
> produced had they done it from scratch themselves. And 
> besides, a lot of their bugs are compatible with ours. :-)
> 
> I think that MS (and many other companies) "stealing" the BSD 
> TCP/IP stack may be one of the greatest successes that open 
> source has ever had. 
>

As much as people may paint MS as evil and Gates as the devil,
when he had a direct hand in the development process, they at
least sto... err borrowed the right code. :P