[ale] MS trying to blind side Linux via tcp/ip?

[Bao C. Ha]

Microsoft never likes TCP/IP.  They have to "borrow" TCP/IP 
codes from BSD for their implementation.  Microsoft does not 
like Internet either.  The world would have been much better 
if we all running Lan Manager, AppleTalk, IPX/SPX, SNA, Decnet, 
Chaos, ... with happily run-around bridges/routers.  Who has 
the time to surf the net when your computers can't to talk
each other most of the time?  No more virus, worms!

Personally I don't like IPv4.  Why can't we move to IPv6?
And, why banks like Citibank or Washington Mutual not fixing
their firewalls?  I got caught with the IPMASQ/MTU problem 
for running obsolete Linux version on an 486 as my router.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf 
> Of Keith R.
> Watson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:18 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] MS trying to blind side Linux via tcp/ip?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I ran across the following article about TCP/IP security and possible 
> Microsoft marketing scenarios. What intrigued me was the way 
> it could blind 
> side Linux and other UN*Xs. It reminded me of the Microsoft memo that 
> discussed possible ways of battling Linux and other open 
> source products. 
> Is it possible? Only time will tell.
> 
> The Death of TCP/IP
> Why the Age of Internet Innocence is Over
> 
> By Robert X. Cringely
> 
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html
> 
> 
> keith
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> 
> Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
> Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
> keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
> 404-894-0836
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