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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. 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."