FW: eWeek - Microsoft to Release More Source Code

[Ulf Bertilsson]

Comments ? :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul W. Nelson [mailto:nelson at THURSBY.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:24 PM
> To: CIFS at DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
> Subject: eWeek - Microsoft to Release More Source Code
> 
> 
> Anyone read this article:
>     http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=1884&a=23968,00.asp
> 
> "Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler told eWeek on Tuesday that 
> the Redmond,
> Wash.-based software firm would release the Server Message Block (SMB)
> protocol later this summer to comply with the provisions of 
> the proposed
> final settlement between it and the Department of Justice in 
> that antitrust
> case."
> 
> 
> 
> I wonder if the "licensing terms"  would make cooperation 
> between people
> working with CIFS better or worse?  Does anyone know what 
> terms are likely
> to be demanded by Microsoft - especially regarding non-disclosure?
> 
> 
> --
> Paul W. Nelson
> V.P. Engineering, Thursby Software Systems, Inc.
> 
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