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Microsoft Agrees to Release Work Group Protocols

Posted by Zonk on 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."

3 of 143 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Good by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes they're true. Please help us. See here :

    http://samba.org/samba/devel/

    for details.

    Thanks

    Jeremy.

  2. Re:So where can I find the documentation? by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't mean to belittle your work, which is important, but I want to pre-empt Microsoft salesmen who might decide to point to this as evidence that Microsoft protocols are as open as, say, NFSv4.

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    http://outcampaign.org/
  3. Re:Fully interoperate with the AD by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But I *loved* the goatse trolls :-). It used to be the only reason I
    came to read /. :-). I miss sig11 and klerk and the rest of that crew.

    They made /. fun, especially as they drove taco *nuts* :-).

    Anyone remember the Bruce Perens impersonators ? :-).

    Jeremy.