[geeks] fwd: Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software

[velociraptor]

On 5/15/07, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Sandwich Maker wrote:
> > " From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
> > "
> > " Or possibly anyone running Apache on an open-source operating system can
> > " counter-claim again Microsoft for damages incurred every time one of
> > " their infected PCs turns into a spam-spewing zombie?  I suspect MSFT
> > " would come out behind on that sort of deal.
> >
> > which reminds me of the rumor that ms themselves run apache, hacked to
> > report the ms server [iis?] id string, on their own site.  ms servers
> > fell over under the load...
>
> This was certainly documentably true at one time.
>
> See also the initial Microsoft acquisition of Hotmail, and the abortive
> attempt shortly afterward to migrate it onto Windows, and the frantic
> move back onto *BSD when the MS servers, again, couldn't cope.

That's funny, at the '01 LISA, there was an SA from Hotmail there who
claimed the whole shebang ran on Solaris & NetApp...

=Nadine=