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Microsoft Releases CIFS Docs -- Free Ball & Chain
juan large moose writes: "Microsoft has released documentation on the CIFS protocol suite, but there may be a catch.
The license says that the documentation is available for review, but no one may implement the described technology without signing a 'royalty-free' license agreement. Some reviewers are reporting that the document provides less information than the earlier IETF DRAFT CIFS specification, and may in fact be a cleaned-up version of an outdated Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Document. These other documents do not have the restrictive license."
Why all this wailing and pissing about MS not providing free and unfuckingfettered access to their shit? Here's the deal, and I will be as fucking concise and clear about this as possible: If CIFS doesn't give you a stiffy, then use something else. If the licensing agreement makes you clench your fist and scream "mothafucka mothafucka mothafucka mothafucka" then don't use it. Quite simple. I'm no MBA. I didn't write any books that got reviewed on slashdot, but I will tell you this: Microsoft doesn't want people competing against them with their own products.
If I give a bum a roll of pennies, and he clenches his fist and socks me in the junk destroying my ability to bring profane motherfucking babies into the world, I'll be upset, to say the least.
But think about this small cornnut studded turd of wisdom: their Common fucking file system won't be too fucking common if developers don't use it.
Is that you Ozzy?