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Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Dec 2007 21:29 UTC, ecommerce server order management submitted by diegocg
"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, a non-profit organization created by terra server sattelite photographs the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and rras server to make them available to hotmail smtp server name Free Software projects such as syslog server Samba.
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Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March proxy server anonymous 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, comcast incoming mail server after losing their appeal against free ntp server that decision on September windows server continuously reboots 17th 2007."
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RE[3]: Wow
by JCooper (3.36) on Fri 21st Dec 2007 23:30 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Wow"
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The fancy bits being isa server course a home domain controller, with all the nice backup and remote access tools
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Interesting comment over at Neowin, reproduced below:
According voip server to this report [1] (which references a Groklaw analysis), the Samba team apparently paid the 10,000 Euro fee tiff server side browser flash viewing to license the documentation. The documentation cannot be redistributed, but this allows the Samba team to wi-fi audio server see the specifics of SMB, and to code
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And, if you recall, Ballmer free web server software has been dlink dp-301u print server pretty noisy over the past 3 months or so about Linux best file server opensuse infringing on patents.
Seems like Microsoft is being forced to how to upgrade to server r2 provide information on these patents (if only by paying for anonymous proxy server protocol documentation), which will lessen the unspecific FUD that Microsoft
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[1] - windows home server 64bit http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/12/the_first...
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RE[4]: Wow
by mmu_man (2.68) on Fri 21st Dec 2007 23:45 in reply to "RE[3]: Wow"
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Wait! you mean they *paid* caldav server for that ?
Insane.
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RE[5]: Wow
by siride (4.76) on Sat 22nd Dec 2007 00:59 in reply to "RE[4]: Wow"
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