MS getting rid of SAMBA?

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?"

Comments

I saw this on National Geographic

[Chundra]

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.

The end of SAMBA?

[Black Perl]

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

Re:I would be very surprised to see this happen.

[csbruce]

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."

Re:Next you'll say MS is getting rid of TCP/IP

[11223]

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?

Lock-in

[loki4eng]

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.