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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:Why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, but disguise the protocol description as a recipe for a Latvian fish stew:

    Take one cup of 0xab 0x3e 0xff
    and mix in two cups of 0xe4 0x01
    and 0x1f cups of 0x23 to taste.
    Simmer for 0xa3 minutes and cool.
    Serves 500 million.

  2. Re:007 by leviramsey · · Score: 4, Funny

    As James Bond said once, "How do you kill a few hours in Rio, if you don't samba?"

  3. Network configuration by totallygeek · · Score: 4, Funny
    So, now we will have this list in the network neighborhood properties?


    Microsoft Client for Microsoft Networks
    Microsoft Client for Netware Networks
    Samba Team Client for What Microsoft Should Use

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    1. Re:Network configuration by VValdo · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, cuz when you try to install Samba, you'll now get an error that says:

      "We're sorry, the Network Neighborhood is a Gated community."

      W

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  4. Re:For the sake of interoperability by trenton · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah. Let's just hope Microsoft doesn't destory Alderan before a "structural remedy" is delivered down their thermal exhaust port.

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  5. Re:Testing Waters by Ziviyr · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is debatable whether wine qould qualify as an unlicensed copy of Windows, though.

    Bran flakes aren't corn flakes.
    And WINE isn't Windows (licensed or otherwise).

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  6. Re:Testing Waters by glwtta · · Score: 4, Funny
    the antitrust people will be able to do something about it

    Yeah, they've got an excellent record so far.

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