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MS getting rid of SAMBA?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-samba-gets-stable-get-rid-of-samba dept.

BenRussoUSA writes "In this ZDNet story . Brian Behlendorf of Apache, Jeremy Allison of SAMBA, Miguel de Icaza of Ximian and now MONO and Eric Allman of Sendmail are all quoted in a story regarding a nasty rumor. Microsoft may be planning to include a Microsoft patented technology at a crucial interoperability point in .NET and maybe the next version of CIFS. Could this spell the end of SAMBA?"

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  1. The end of SAMBA is the end of Windows. by EEEthan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    As a networked OS anyway. There are a lot of offices and homes using SAMBA as the filesharing protocol because it's nearly transparent to the winlusers...I'll never buy OR use an MS os that doesn't have working SAMBA interoperabilty--but then I'll never give MS my credit card # either, so I'm already out of the loop.

    Bad call--bad call. My prediction is that .NET is going to be the end of MS--it will fail when people realize they're paying more--a lot more--for less. People will just keep using win2k, win98 and 95 and ME and local versions of Office rather than paying through the nose for .NET and MS products with broken filesharing

    Of course, I could be wrong, but I know what my family and clients will be doing.

  2. Yet more tap dancing........ by fongsaiyuk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    geez...

    Just more tap-dancing from MS to distract everyone from their little monopoly issues.

    Wouldn't want to focus on that, now would we?