What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of TM4525 at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:14 AM
> To: daemon at foxchat.net

> Note that it also took quite a bit a beating to get them to admit that 
> 
> 1) They dont know the answer to the Subject 
> or
> 2) Yahoo runs something quite different than what is available 
> generally since
> they've "substantially" modified it.
> 

No, it is just I would be surprised if they didn't.

Yahoo like any large company almost certainly has patentable ideas
and a crew of lawyers reviewing everything.  I would also expect
they have a patent portfolio.  Otherwise nothing would prevent some
competitor ripping off their ideas and setting up a duplicate
"yahoo" website.  I would guess - since it is usual for this in
most large companies - that some of these ideas are implemented in
the FreeBSD they run.

I don't work at Yahoo so I can freely speculate.  And my speculations
are founded on what is normal and usual for most larger companies.
Nobody that works at Yahoo and actually knows the truth would be
able to even speak hypothetically about what runs at Yahoo, as they
would almost certaily be under an NDA.  (something that is also
normal and usual for most large companies)

Ted