On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:44:25AM +0800, Maren S. Leizaola wrote: | Network Appliance a.k.a NetApp is noticeably absent from the OpenBSD | donations page (www.openbsd.org/donations.html). Anyone who uses a | NetApp knows immediately that the OnTap OS is BSD, always has been | BSD.
The fact that NetApp used some 4.xBSD and NetBSD code (most of which predates the existance of OpenBSD) doesn't mean that NetApp "owes" the OpenBSD project anything.
AFAICT, the "BSD" code that NetApp uses (or has used) includes:
* The TCP/IP stack from BSD Net/2 and 4.4BSD-lite.
* The NetBSD/alpha port was originally written by Chris Demetriou for NetBSD (whilst he was at CMU). NetApp appears to have used that to get OnTAP running on the Alpha-based 630 and 7xx series of Filers and NetCaches.
Luke.
(Speaking for myself, not for NetBSD or NetApp).