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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. Alternatives DO exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I say, good. Now maybe some of the samba effort will move to real systems. Like Coda, for example, which I believe does have windows drivers already and is _pretty_ reliable at least. Like they said, Samba just shouldn't have lasted this long anyway. (That's not to say that the Samba team isn't doing a great job on it, though)