Ownership of CIFS?

[Esh, Andrew]

The following article implies that Microsoft is selling licenses for CIFS,
as if they control the ownership of that protocol:

http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=27508

My understanding is that CIFS is an open protocol, and it is characterized
as such by Microsoft on this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/mind/1196/cifs.asp

What do you folks think? Is this just a mix-up of terms?

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