Re: [edlug] EU Forcing Microsoft to Open Source?

[Faye Gibbins <wibble@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

I've followed Samba for serveral years and can confirm this as true.

Yours
Faye

This time she's the lesser of two evils.

http://www.morpheux.org





James E. Jarvis wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, H C Pumphrey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ed wrote:
> > ... is credible, then they may have done just that in this case. So a good
> > killer question for MSFT (to link to another thread) is whether they will
> > be charging the SAMBA team for the right to use their specifications.
> > Maybe they can't as long as the samba team have done it all by reverse
> > engineering?
>
>
> Apparently.... MS engineers use the Samba docs because they are a better
> source of information one the SMB protocol than they can get in house -
> presumably the original experts moved on!
>
> This may be apocryphal, but then again might not be!
>
> James
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