svn commit: samba-web r685 - in trunk/news/advocacy: .

[deryck at samba.org]

Author: deryck
Date: 2005-06-03 19:38:51 +0000 (Fri, 03 Jun 2005)
New Revision: 685

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=685

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Adding news item on Volker's eweek interview (regarding
the EU/MS case).

deryck


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+    <h3><a name="vl_eweek_eu_ms">Volker Lendecke on EU/MS Case</a></h3> 
+        
+    <div class="article">
+      <p><a href="http://www.eweek.com/">Eweek</a> is running an article on 
+      the EU/Microsoft case.  The article does a nice job outlining some of 
+      the complexities of the case.</p>
+
+      <blockquote>
+        <p>A core sticking point is the licenses' per-seat fees, which make 
+        them useless for open-source projects, according to open-source 
+        developers.</p>
+
+        <p>But where it comes to these crucial licenses, the Commission's hands
+        may be tied. "If the Commission requires Microsoft to make its protocol
+        licensing GPL [General Public License]-compatible, it could jeopardize 
+        their entire case," said Jonathan Zuck, president of ACT (the 
+        Association for Competitive Technology), which supports Microsoft's 
+        side of the case.</p>
+      </blockquote>
+ 
+      <p>Samba Team member Volker Lendecke offers his thoughts on the case 
+      in an interview within the article.  Volker explains the importance of 
+      the server protocols to open source projects like Samba.</p>
+
+      <blockquote>We want all the protocols, so that Windows clients and 
+      other servers fully believe we are a Windows-compatible implementation. 
+      It's the network behavior we want to clone, but the implementation 
+      behind that is different. That's where we see that we really can 
+      compete, by making it more efficient, more secure or 
+      whatever.</blockquote>
+
+      <p>For more, see the complete article  
+      <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823118,00.asp">EU's Hands 
+      May Be Tied in Microsoft Case</a>.</p>
+    </div>
+        
+