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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: Floid on April 26, 2003, 12:31:49 AM
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From a link glossed over in a Slashdot article, ZDNet interviews Microsoft's Rob Short (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2133899,00.html).
You can always argue over how truthful it is, but it does show the giant waking up to modern server development practices. As a fan of the world's most functional reference implementations (http://www.daemonnews.org), I'm amused that his points exactly mirror what the BSD projects have been up to- OpenBSD is a constant security audit, the FreeBSD SMPng project is all about fine-grained locking, and accept filtering (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-bsd44.html) exists if you really need a kernel hack for HTTP. (Okay, *BSD SMBFS is no competition for SAMBA.)
Looks like they can 'ignore' the GPLed world, but have to move when the BSD-free implementations do! :-P