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Quoting Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > The important things to remember here are: > 1) Samba is a reverse engineering of a proprietary protocol. > 2) Novell and M$ are working together to increase M$/Linux interactivity - > with the real protocol specs Novell will be able to produce a > smaller/tighter/faster integration without referring to Samba code - unless > M$ does it for them, or perhaps M$ have already done something in > VastaMistake that will prevent Samba catching up (DRM ing something out of > malice) They could right this up on proprietary code so they wont give a hoot > about GPLn. I thought the whole point of the GPL is if they make changes to the code they have to release those changes under GPL? Surely M$ wouldn't go to the trouble of writing something like Samba for Linux (using entirely their own code rather than any Samba code/GPL'd?) I also thought the idea of the M$/Novell deal was to improve interoperability between Linux and Windows. > 3) Samba is for communication with a dying computer OS. You should > only use it > to talk to legacy systems while migrating their users. You wont need to stick > it somewhere they have Vasta -they'll be too licensed up to make it > worthwhile. > I actually use Samba to share stuff between my desktop PC/server/Xbox/work laptop. Although I'd completely like to get away from using Windows, I *have* to use Windows on my work laptop (although I do have it dual booting with Ubuntu for when I'm not on call). My other half uses Windows on her laptop and despite me moaning about using Windows she is sticking with it. I can see her sticking with Windows until she replaces her laptop which will be a couple of years yet. You may consider Windows as a dying computer OS but it isn't going anywhere just yet is it. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html