[Samba] Re: [expert] Microsoft - The settlement that isn't

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:57:40AM -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 08:42, James Davis wrote:
> > So what does this have to do with Samba????
> 
> I was wondering that, too.  This, on the other hand, is interesting. 
> Microsoft may have the legal muscle to make life very difficult for
> Samba:
> 
> http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24661.html
> 
> "ComputerWire predicted the release of CIFS and SMB could squash open
> source when news first broke of its decision to open the technology in
> March. As details of the CIFS license have emerged since then, it has
> become clear Microsoft has effectively banned open source companies from
> distributing implementations of CIFS, if the software is distributed
> under the General Public License (GPL)."

I'm dealing with that directly. I'm talking to the journalist who
wrote it to try and fix some of the errors in this piece.

Jeremy.