[Pc_Support] .NET based on Java?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 10:29 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> And they wouldn't think to realize that NTFS uses the libz (GZip)
> algorithm for its LZ77 compression either.

In fact, I have read several articles that believe Microsoft licensed it
from PKWare.

The LZ77 algorithm is free, and libz is BSD licensed.  Every single libz
vunerability has shown up in NT.

If anyone honestly believes that Microsoft created C# and .NET in less
than a year, then I'm all ears.

Until then, the Microsoft developers I knew, the ones that said they
should beat Sun at its own Java game and not fork, are my source.


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