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Samba Team Responds to Microsoft CIFS Spec License
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.
If samba.org was slashdotted, this might be a useful post. But its not and it isn't!!
Actually.. Samba is trademarked in Germany.
I searched Google for some old info but couldn't find much. Sniplet below is from an old Samba announcement page
(3rd June 2001) The German Samba Trademark problem has been solved. CMG has given a license to Service Network GmbH (SerNet), in this case representing the Open Source Community, to use the word Samba for the Open Source product. This license allows SerNet to issue sublicenses to all who sell or support Samba. More information can be found on samba.sernet.de
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
This means that as far as we are aware Samba is completely unaffected by the existance of these patents. I hate to be this guy, but they could have run this statement through spell check. This is like my second comment ever. Sigh.
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It's the Microsoft infiltrators! They want to hide the legitimate Microsoft exposes by only modding up the lame anti-M$ FUD-spouting L1nuX k1dd33s! Slashdot has fallen victim! The terrorists have won!
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"Anything is better than IE, and you can quote me on that." -- Wil Wheaton.
there's several cleuless people over here. this is waht you get with moderation, the democratic system gives clueless people a chance to do stupid things.
;^)
i too am tempted to react sometimes, but then who cares. and since you seem to have collected sufficient karma, your voice will be heard louder in the discussion anyway. let the little guy have his little revenge and mod you overrated
maybe a discussion box should be attached to a moderation. in this way, the moderated could anonymously discuss with the moderator about the contents of the post, and whether on not it;s insightful. think of the extra traffic it woudl generate... hehe
enough of that
That is one damn big banner ad up there.
Mod this UP NOW !
Curmudgeon