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Samba Team Responds to Microsoft CIFS Spec License

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jeremey-reads-slashdot-at-minus-one dept.

Jeremy Allison - Samba Team writes: "The Samba Team has released a statement regarding the Microsoft CIFS specification license and its effect on Samba. Regards! Jeremy Allison" Reading this and the Microsoft CIFS Technical License raises a number of issues worth considering. The statement maintains that the specification details an old implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol, one Microsoft itself has abandoned. One wonders if the only reason they release such docs are as props for a court case or something.

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  1. Re:Samba/MS by AnimeFreak · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sufface to say, very little.

    Why?

    Microsoft basically created the SMB protocol, so why would they need a 3rd party to extend it for them?