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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:40:32 +0000 (UTC)
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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> writes:

>Even if I overlook that you're effectively comparing the incomparable,
>Microsoft making 370 times more than RedHat says _nothing_ about their
>actual achievement in terms of software development.  Should you insist

You might simply open your eyes and look around you before you utter
such ridicioulous statements.

% cd /home/mirror/RFC
% for i in rfc*.txt; do head -20 $i | grep -iq microsoft; if [ "x$?" = "x0" ]; then    echo $i; fi; done | wc -l
    102     102    1224 /tmp/rfc-log
% for i in rfc*.txt; do head -20 $i | grep -iq 'red hat'; if [ "x$?" = "x0" ]; then    echo $i; fi; done | wc -l
% for i in rfc*.txt; do head -20 $i | grep -iq 'redhat'; if [ "x$?" = "x0" ]; then    echo $i; fi; done | wc -l


So in terms of "RFC contributions" which are the established and
accepted base on which to build the internet and "open software", the
score is

Microsoft Corporation vs. Red Hat Inc.
    102                :    0

Some examples: 

rfc1877:	PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol Extensions for Name Server Addresses
rfc2069/2617:	An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication
rfc2193:	IMAP4 Mailbox Referrals
rfc2237:	Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
rfc2338:	Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
rfc2342:	IMAP4 Namespace
rfc2445:	Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)
rfc2518/3253:	HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV
rfc2565:	Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and Transport
rfc2616:	Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 	(Yup. Microsoft)
rfc2661:	Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP"
rfc2782:	A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)
rfc2989:	Criteria for Evaluating AAA Protocols for Network Access (Microsoft. Sun. Cisco. Nokia.)


	Regards
		Henning


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