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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.
I think this is yet another example of homosexual propoganda being sturdily and consistenly drilled into our brains to further the gay agenda. Can't anyone agree with me? Heil Hitler.
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.
how long has it been since tux sucked you off?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
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.
13 hours, 99 minutes, and 99 seconds !!! GENTLEMEN !!
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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.
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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
Somebody mod this self-righteous whiny prick down for me.
Hi
I also work for MS, as Billy G's (or Lady Pinky as [s]he likes to be called).
That is one damn big banner ad up there.
Duh! It is his site. He can have any ID he wants, not just 1!
My God, man, get a clue.
Mod this UP NOW !
Curmudgeon