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>Microsoft is known to have built off BSD networking code for Windows.

30+ years ago, when everyone was basing their TCP stacks on the BSD implementation. That was one of the reasons that the infamous 64k+ "ping of death" affected more than just Windows in 1998.

The stack was re-written for Vista/Longhorn more than 20 years ago.

My point being that the GP question was about FreeBSD's success today and the Windows TCP stack is not a good candidate to illustrate that.



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