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Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Samba Team Responds to Microsoft CIFS Spec License

Samba Team Responds to Microsoft CIFS Spec License
Posted by chrisd on Tuesday April 30, @12:53AM
from the jeremey-reads-slashdot-at-minus-one dept.
Jeremy Allison - Samba Team writes: "The Samba Team has released a statement regarding the Microsoft CIFS specification license and its effect on Samba. Regards! Jeremy Allison" Reading this and the Microsoft CIFS Technical License raises a number of issues worth considering. The statement maintains that the specification details an old implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol, one Microsoft itself has abandoned. One wonders if the only reason they release such docs are as props for a court case or something.

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