I'm not sure, but I think you're wrong. She kept the really obnoxious paragraph III.J.2, wherein Microsoft doesn't need to disclose protocols if Microsoft doesn't approve of an ISV's "business model".
Since we all know what Microsoft thinks of Open Source [slashdot.org], I suspect that Samba is screwed.
According to 5ofBill, the biggest concern of MS is the GPL, so absolutely nothing that has even a whiff of GPL will get near anything MS... unless they can get away with it.
Stop picking on MS engineers for poor products, and level the blame at the correct place - marketing and management.
My in-law wrangles servers in Redmond for the company. A really top notch dude. His first comment re: MS was, "It is disappointing that these people (running the show) think of nothing but making money."
Having worked around hydrogen for a couple of decades (in a VERY large oil refinery), by observation I have learned:
- that the gas is really adept at finding pinhole leaks.
- that the leaking gas does not necessarily break up into the surrounding stmosphere. A pinhole leak will snake around until it finds a source of ignition, and will then ignite, with a thunderclap sound, back to the source of the leak.
The Hindenburg event seems to have its own grassy knoll of confusion, with many suspicious sources.
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M$ employees rank their managerial distance from BillG in Borg terms, e.g., "I'm 6ofBill."
Is this a TSA fringe benefit at your local airport scanner station?
I'm not sure, but I think you're wrong. She kept the really obnoxious paragraph III.J.2, wherein Microsoft doesn't need to disclose protocols if Microsoft doesn't approve of an ISV's "business model".
Since we all know what Microsoft thinks of Open Source [slashdot.org], I suspect that Samba is screwed.
According to 5ofBill, the biggest concern of MS is the GPL, so absolutely nothing that has even a whiff of GPL will get near anything MS... unless they can get away with it.
Stop picking on MS engineers for poor products, and level the blame at the correct place - marketing and management.
My in-law wrangles servers in Redmond for the company. A really top notch dude. His first comment re: MS was, "It is disappointing that these people (running the show) think of nothing but making money."
Having worked around hydrogen for a couple of decades (in a VERY large oil refinery), by observation I have learned:
- that the gas is really adept at finding pinhole leaks.
- that the leaking gas does not necessarily break up into the surrounding stmosphere. A pinhole leak will snake around until it finds a source of ignition, and will then ignite, with a thunderclap sound, back to the source of the leak.
The Hindenburg event seems to have its own grassy knoll of confusion, with many suspicious sources.