Microsoft's Slap at Samba

Rollie Hawk writes "Microsoft's latest attempt to reconcile with the European Commission's antitrust rulings against the company may result in another victim. It seems their offer, if accepted, will strike a considerable blow at a leading competitor in the realm of file and printer sharing. The popular open source suite Samba stands to be the recipient of a backhanded slap from Redmond if the offer stands and the European branch of the Free Software Foundation is taking it personally. Though Microsoft is offering to make some information regarding interoperability available to competitors, it's only under the condition that implementations are not open source. According to FSFE president Georg Greve, "the proposal specifically precludes the information from being used in a free software implementation, such as the Samba workgroup server software." How is Samba being specifically targeted? Greve argues this is because "Samba is the only remaining major competitor of Microsoft in this market.""

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Re:first post yea ha

[Phantombantam]

The only thing more pathetic than an FP troll is one which didn't even get first post. Now, not only Are you a jerk, but you're an idiot as well. Anyway... Do I smell a catfight between samba and microsoft?! Meow.

First of all, isn't Samba Australian?

[lildogie]

Secondly, if Europe decides to f**k themselves by shutting out Samba, the rest of the world will just have to enjoy the free software while Europe bends over for Microsoft.

That ought to get a few delegates run out on a rail.

So what's new?

[geekee]

Samba didn't get any help from MS before, and now they still won't. Didn't stop them before.