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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. I saw this on National Geographic by Chundra · · Score: 5, Funny

    It won't be the end of Samba, because her mother, Simba, and father, Mjimba (the king of the jungle I might add) will protect her. In fact, I suspect that Mjimba would disembowel any Microsoft weenie who tried to lay a hand his favorite daughter, leaving the carcass to the hyenas.

  2. The end of SAMBA? by Black+Perl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Getting rid of SAMBA... not a bad idea. While they're at it, they should get rid of COUNTRY and DISCO.

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  3. Re:I would be very surprised to see this happen. by csbruce · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft might be a major behometh and may attempt to stifle Project Mono but I doubt it would be throught the form of changing CIFS (the new version of SMB for those who don't know).

    They should have called it "CIFLS", pronounced "syphilis". Perhaps the 'L' can be implied. "First I got Mono, but then I realized that I also got CIFLS in the same transaction."

  4. How well could they do it by jjr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Without keeping backwards compatablity with NT 4.0
    and Windows 2000. Of course they could always supply "patches" for NT 4.0 and W2k that will "allow" them to use the new password protocol. But my favorite solution is to host the project in a country were patents do not matter. Let's say Russia.

  5. Re:Next you'll say MS is getting rid of TCP/IP by 11223 · · Score: 4, Funny
    How does regualr 95/98/ME download the addon when everything is converted over to the new TCP/IP?

    Huh, didn't think of that one, right?

  6. Lock-in by loki4eng · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is all about lock-in. It is getting harder and harder for MIS departments to fight M$, but we keep getting more reasons to do so. They continually leverage their desktop monopoly to force businesses to use (buy) other software of theirs. Its nothing new, but it has gotten SOOOO much worse this year.

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  7. Me Lose Monopoly? Uh-oh! by neflyte · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks to me like MS is trying to go proprietary again. Just when Samba was getting real good too...

    What next, Microsoft(R) TCP/IP(R)?

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