Microsoft Agrees to Release Work Group Protocols

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 20, 2007 @10:22AM from the kind-of-a-big-deal(tm) dept.

UnknowingFool writes "Groklaw is reporting that the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) has signed an agreement with Microsoft to release their protocols relating to Windows Work Group Server. The Foundation agrees to pay MS $10,000, and the agreement does not cover patents. This agreement apparently was made to somewhat satisfy the EU Commission complaints. With PFIF's objective to aid open source, this agreement means that the Samba Team may finally get the information they need to fully interoperate with Windows AD servers."

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Re:Just another example by Anonymous Coward · 2007-12-20 12:05 · Score: 4, Funny

You seem to imply that there is some difference between the US Government and MicroSoft.
Truly, the only thing more tightly integrated with Windows than Internet Explorer is the Justice Department.
Was that my outside voice?
Re:Just another example by Handover+Phist · 2007-12-20 13:31 · Score: 3, Funny

In Soviet Slashdot...
Great! by jav1231 · 2007-12-21 00:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Great! Now maybe someone in OSS can figure out how to route Netbeui!

What!?