Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Dec 2007 21:29 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, a non-profit organization created by 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 to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007."
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Once they start following MS's actual specs, I expect the quality of their implementation to drop.
[sarcasm] huh, I guess you're right. They are so much better with guessing them as they do now. [/sarcasm]
Note for you from our planet. Samba IS implementation of MS protocols, so... why would be using documentation instead of guessing be a bad thing?
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2006-02-05
Samba is already better in some ways then the windows client. Imagine what the team will be able to do now that they have the specs?
What we need now is AD and Exchange protocols