Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jul 2007 17:49 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licences for all future releases of Samba. The GPLv3 is the updated version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free Software in the 21st Century. To allow people to distinguish which Samba version is released with the new GPLv3 license, we are updating our next version release number. The next planned version release was to be 3.0.26, this will now be renumbered so the GPLv3 version release will be 3.2.0. To be clear, all versions of Samba numbered 3.2 and later will be under the GPLv3, all versions of Samba numbered 3.0.x and before remain under the GPLv2."
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1) More builds are available - then again, one would argue that having Windows for a file server is a waste of money given it can be done with FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux or some other 'free' or 'low cost' operating sysmte
Assuming I already have a windows file server up and running there is no wasted money in keeping it running. On the other hand taking the server off line to install a new OS, format the discs, and copy back the files from backup is a huge cost.
but if you do have *NIX server with Windows XP clients, then why not use iFolder?
One reason may be retraining of staff. iFolder works differently from SMB. Virtually Everybody knows how to access shared resources using SMB on windows, virtually no one knows how to use iFolder. Now it's not hard, but it would still require training and changing of many peoples routines.