Samba

The Samba project, which is GPL-licensed, enables several operating systems to interact with Microsoft Windows.

The goal behind the project is one of removing barriers to interoperability.

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2008

Links 25/10/2008: Adoption Evidence and More ...

2008/10/25 - Experts want ICT policy changed · FSFE’s antitrust victory with Samba · BMW seeking partners for open-source car software platform ...

On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’

2008/10/24 - Moody previously shed some more light on Mono (why it’s “patently different” from Samba) and in response to the comment above, says El Perro Loco: ...

Mono Watch: Where Is It All Coming From?

2008/10/16 - Oct 16, 2008 ... Samba, regardless of copyrights or patents, does nothing more than ... IE, when Microsoft changed the protocol for Vista/2008, Samba ...

Novell Incorporated: Convergence of Windows and ...

2008/10/14 - ...He also explained why the “they are evil too” defense does not work for Samba. Fred A said,. October 15, 2008 at 8:08 pm ...

Marcel Gagné on Mono, OOXML, and More

2008/10/13 - Marcel Gagné on Mono, OOXML, and More. Posted in Microsoft, GNU/Linux, Samba, Mono, Videos, Patents, Open XML at 8:58 am by Roy Schestowitz ...

Question Revisited: Is Novell’s OpenSUSE Free ...

2008/10/12 - The only actual developers that went notably were some SAMBA-guys who are pretty ... It’s not just Samba. We covered many more examples, especially in 2007. ...

Novell’s Linux Poison® (Mono) Reaches 2.0 ...

2008/10/11 - And that is why developers and users need to be warned off Mono in a way that is not necessary for Samba.“ Jose_X said,. October 12, 2008 at 9:35 am ...

BoycottNovell Goes Shopping for Mono Patent ...

2008/10/09 - Specifically, it distinguishes between Mono and a project like Samba — a favorite example that Mono enthusiasts like to use in their defense. ...

Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management ...

2008/10/07 - What about Samba or Wine? I don’t understand this focus on Mono. If you’re really worried about Microsoft’s software patents then I suggest you stop using ...

On ‘Citizens’ Against Government Waste (CAGW ...

2008/09/01 - ... In 2006, Shane wrote about the impact of the Novell/Microsoft deal on the EC ruling regarding Samba and other things. ...

Sam Ramji, the Man Who Wants to Politely Steal ...

2008/07/31 - Working with Samba is a good move. Opening protocols is a good move. ..... MS opened protocols to the Samba team because the EU FORCED them to. ...

Novell Befriends the School’s Bully, Fights GNU ...

2008/08/23 - ...maker they eventually moved to a open source development model and have gotten involved with the popular open source Samba project. ...

IPv6 Suffers from FUD and Lagging Because of ...

2008/08/19 - FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba. ‘In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy Allison reports how he was told that the ...

Mono Spreads, Fails

2008/08/12 - The Commission investigates it for anti-competitive reasons while Novell shields Microsoft from regulators, just as it did to harm Samba. ...

Reminder: Novell and Xandros Are Not Open Source ...

2008/07/12 - ... Jeremy Allison of Samba made the point when he resigned from Novell over the same issue. “Whilst the Microsoft patent agreement is in place ...

Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents ...

2008/07/02 - Posted in Microsoft, Deception, Samba, Patents, Europe at 10:37 am by Roy ... as illustrated by the Samba story, especially last year [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ...

OpenSUSE 11.0 Weaknesses — in the Words of Others

2008/06/26 - Try to configure samba shares, server services, iptables without YaST, and we’ll talk again about this :-). 6) The fifth review speaks about issues with ...

Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part II: OpenSUSE Beyond ...

2008/06/28 - Earlier I was trying to use KDE4 for all my work (and I had installed through a single-CD), and not surprisingly most of the CUPS files and SAMBA files were ...

Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too ...

2008/06/22 - Jun 22, 2008 ... Mono and Samba developers, for instance, knew about it in advance and had time to voice their opinion. Jeremy Allison told us that he ...

The Novell Danger (to Free Software) Becomes More ...

2008/06/17 - ... OpenAddict, Samba, Rosenberg, Asay, Perens and many others protest against this deal as well. This isn’t news, but I’m merely putting out ...

Then, They Fight You… by Buying Some New Laws

2008/05/25 - FWIW, btw, the EU are generally pretty OK with RAND terms - e.g., the patents mentioned in the Samba docs are under RAND terms. Samba also had to pay up ...

OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C

2008/05/24 - May 24, 2008 ... Recent Rejection of OOXML, Google's Jeremy Allison Uses Samba Analogies · The Latest News on the Microsoft OOXML Fiasco (Updated) ...

Microsoft Talks to Open Source “Community Members ...

2008/05/19 - For the CIFS documentation, they handed over to Samba a document and listed the ... With that list, the Samba team can now actively avoid those patents to ...

Mono “..and still nothing on whether WinForms is ...

2008/05/14 - Have you seen Samba and WINE being sued by M$ lately? Well, I thought not… So stop acting like a headless chicken. Note: comment has been flagged for ...

The Difference Between US Stance and EU Stance on ...

2008/05/13 - Microsoft is not happy about the patent licensing terms that the Commission has negotiated, and want to tax open source projects, such Samba and Redhat: ...

Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL

2008/05/06 - ... Ask Samba and the EU. While Red Hat’s patent protection plan may be enough for you, it might not be for someone else. ...

Microsoft Gets Into Board of Open Source Business ...

2008/05/06 - Naturally, you’ll add the SAMBA team to your growing list of whipping boys ... I don’t criticize collaboration of this type, but what Sambas Allison *did* ...

Selling a Proprietary GNU/Linux by Spitting in ...

2008/05/02 - Just watch what happened with some folks from Samba. They move to Red Hat. Sideshow-Bob said,. May 4, 2008 at 4:11 pm. So you have banned him? ...

Novell’s ‘Binary Bridges’: Could SUSE Ever ...

2008/04/30 - If so, then there’s an easy way to provide evidence - you could get some statements from the SAMBA devs about this, but alas… you haven’t. ...

Novell and GNOME Help Microsoft and .NET’s Fight ...

2008/04/27-So going with Novell, as opposed to RedHat, I am paying Microsoft for patent protection on GPLed software (Samba, OpenOffice.org, Mono-C#). ...

On Marriage Patents, Software Patents and Thought ...

2008/04/07 - Tridgell, of Samba fame, has served some ministers justice down there in Australia where decision makers gathered to discuss Free software. ...

Microsoft’s Latest OOXML Corruptions in Germany ...

2008/03/30 - Moglen visited Redmond for the benefit of Samba developers, but he is far, far from being a fan or an apologist, As for Stallman, he can be trusted for good ...

Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the ...

2008/03/24 - Posted in Formats, Red Hat, Microsoft, GNU/Linux, Novell, FUD, Debian, Samba, Mono, GNOME, Patents, Ubuntu, RAND, Open XML, FOSS at 3:15 am by Roy ...

Windows Home Server: Microsoft’s Hall of Shame

2008/03/12 - Now that the Samba team has been handed a final victory in the 10-year legal battle to get the server APIs out of the Redmond cult, an already good package ...

How Microsoft Used Novell to Stifle the Samba ...

2008/03/09 - He is the founder and the leading developer of Samba. But also from the Samba team, two more people deserve high praises. The first is Jeremy Allison. ...

Links 09/03/2008: OSADL, Carlos Piana Interview ...

2008/03/09 - Listed from October 23rd 2007 onwards, pingbacks and trackbacks (external) are omitted. How Microsoft Used Novell to Stifle the Samba Case in the EU ...

Now Comes the OOXML Patent Tax (Microsoft Lied)

2008/03/08 - ... Some rivals, including Samba and other open source players, argued in the past that that the costs were too prohibitive for ISVs. ...

Microsoft Now Tries to Invade Eclipse, Apache ...

2008/03/07 - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071221-antitrust-pact-payoff-samba… Here’ s a more recent one, showing that the undocumented API problem spans a very ...

Quick Mention: Miguel’s Eureka Moment

2008/03/07 - A lot of Samba, for example, left Novell fairly quickly and they do fine work at the moment. ... Why didn’t he leave the company like that guy from Samba? ...

OSBC 2008 Conquered by Microsoft

2008/02/25 ... whose stance on this is a brilliant one. Without developers’ affinity, Linux could lose its charm to *Solaris. Also see the recent remarks from Samba: ...

How to Spin Executive Exodus as Wonderful News

2008/02/24 - Hiring Corporate Poison · How Microsoft Used Novell to Stifle the Samba Case in the EU · Quick Mention: Good Riddance to Bad Behavior · Nokia and Finland: ...

Quote of the Day: Microsoft is Open! (To More ...

2008/02/22 - And as best as I can figure, they are selling patent licenses to patents Samba says it didn’t need. They could work around them. And by the way, ...

How GNU/Linux Gets Contaminated with Software ...

2008/02/15 - Samba guy quit novell because of this. Classis M$ style. ...... Wine and samba. Various other submarine patents that Linux and other FOSS is almost ...

Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia

2008/02/06 - Just recall the flak they were getting some months ago [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] after implicitly excluding Samba in a settlement with Microsoft. ...

Glyn Moody Against Intellectual Monopoly (aka ...

2008/01/30 - The GPLv3 Not Strict Enough (Should Be Stricter), According to Samba · Microsoft Signs Patent Deal with Alpine, Software Patents Still Under Attack (Updated ...

Software Patents Hinged on Money and Political ...

2008/01/26 - ... The GPLv3 Not Strict Enough (Should Be Stricter), According to Samba · Microsoft, Siemens and Phillips Named for Software Patents in Europe ...

Brent Williams on the Microsoft/Novell deal

2008/01/23 - It’s a “beast” Reaction from open source community Jeremy Allison, Samba Project lead, quits Novell and goes to Google Novell cancels other open source ...

Quick Mention: No Mono for IBM’s Standards Vice ...

2008/01/23 - The same tactics are sometimes used to discredit those who criticize OOXML, Samba (CIFS) being an example. Some messages I’ve been receiving in the past few ...

Pamela Jones: It’s Goodbye to Mandriva (Updatedx2)

2008/01/17 - And MS doesn’t always win, look at the Zune, look at software patents in Europe (or lack of), look at Samba. Look at Red Hat and many others still doing ...

Food for Thought: How Proprietary Silverlight and ...

2008/01/13... to be free and attempting to charge money for anything conceivable is dissected in the following good writeup from Jeremy Alison (of Samba fame). ...

Novell’s Privilege Escalation Vulnerability and ...

2008/01/09 - Eleven projects made the list: Amanda, NTP, OpenPAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL. It’s truly reassuring, but watch this ...

Novell South Africa Suffered a Staff Exodus in 2007Q2

2008/01/08 - Jan 8, 2008 ... I only know of Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame). ... Just remember that the Samba team was among the more vocal protesters who were opposing ...


2007

The Reason Gnumeric+OOXML Misses the Point

2007/12/26 - Compromises might be made where there are no other choices due to ubiquity (e.g. Samba, which was recently victorious, bar patents). Here is a snag. ...

Interesting Quotes from SUSE Forums

2007/12/23 - Dec 23, 2007 ... It is worth seeing how they try to spin the Samba deal in Novell’s ... It’s interesting that Samba never saw the need to sign a deal similar ...

One Year Later: ”Novell: From hero to zero in ...

2007/11/27 - lock out Samba, it would have done been done long before now. It could be that some of restraints placed on convicted monopolists are partly ...

Internationally Speaking: The Increasing Success ...

2007/11/27 - Posted in Formats, Microsoft, Samba, Europe, America, Africa, Protocol, ISO at 3 :15 am by Roy Schestowitz. Money battles sanity ...

Novell’s Dirty Little Secret: It Helps OOXML ...

2007/11/23 - Jeff compares OOXML (e.g. in Gnumeric) to Samba, but see this recent comment on this issue (from Béranger). It’s not that simple a comparison. ...

Europe Takes a Look at Microsoft’s .NET (/Mono ...

2007/11/21 ... Also, I don’t need a reimplementation of a Microsoft technology (note: it’s not like Samba, which is needed for real interoperability) that ...

What Lies Beneath (Another Mono Alert)

2007/11/08-Of course, we know it is mostly BS, since samba is the same for all distros and THAT’s the thing doing 90% of the interoperability between windows and Linux ...

Germany Leans Towards ODF, GNOME Receives Public ...

2007/10/31 - As examples he listed Sambas implementation of SMB/CIFS and Wine’s implementation of Win32. He also referred to “OpenOffice.org, Abiword, Gnumeric, ...

It’s Not Over in Europe; WIPO Wants Some More ...

2007/10/31 - The deal was negotiated in a back room with no presence of any of the plaintiffs, of which SAMBA is the sole remaining. This was a brokered deal between ...

Might Europe Reverse Accidental Discrimination ...

2007/10/28 - This type of strategy pressures Samba and its users, who are naturally ‘allergic ’ to software patents. Here is what Mark Webbink said about patents very ...

Microsoft and Novell Work in Isolation to Weed ...

2007/10/25 - Here is an item that speaks about the licensing route (think Samba/CIFS). Licensing may be a sticky point for some third parties interested in licensing the ...

More on Why the Agreement in Europe Simply Sucks!

2007/10/23... Europe, Intellectual Property, and Software Patent Stories · Might Europe Reverse Accidental Discrimination Against Samba?

The Fourth ‘Patent Deal’ was with Europe… and the ...

2007/10/23-(Microsoft) · More Lawsuits and Attacks by Proxy, Courtesy of Microsoft · Quick Mention: Samba Gets Its Way · Quick Mention: Key Antitrust Ruling is ...

A Victory in Europe for Microsoft’s Absurd ...

2007/10/22 - On the issue of innovation, Jeremy Allison of Samba has just published the following column. Innovation is a weasel word. It used to earn an honest living, ...

Novell-like Terms, Without the Deal… Now 93% Off RRP

2007/10/22... Some More Open Source Whipping · Microsoft Has Already Hijacked (to Kill) Open Source · Might Europe Reverse Accidental Discrimination Against Samba? ...

Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called ‘OpenDocument ...

2007/10/07 - It is exactly the same story when it comes to the Web and Samba. We wrote about this just hours ago and included examples. To an extent, the same goes for ...

Stay Away from OpenSUSE 10.3

2007/10/02 - It’s more like an evil grin; it’s Novell and Microsoft against “the world” (Red Hat, Mandriva, Canonical, Samba, BSD and so forth). Roy Schestowitz said, ...

Novell Selfishly Uses Mono as ‘Protection’-based ...

2007/10/01 - Samba is entirely about the API. Samba 4 is built out of API descriptions (idl files) and can be used to build things (e.g., OpenChange). ...

Will Exclusionary Deals and ‘Binary Bridges ...

2007/09/30 - SerNet is the leading service company regarding Samba with offerings to customers ... The Samba Team is an international association of software developers, ...

Miguel de Icaza Talks About Novell, Mono, and Patents

2007/09/03 - Well I think they do that for the same reason Samba (to take the same example) ... What what Carla Schroder (tuxchick) said here. about Samba and some other ...

There Are Those Who Sell Linux and Those Who Sell Out

2007/08/20 - He said he was offered a lot of money for Samba and the offer was declined. ... In the early days of the project I work on, Samba, a commercial competitor ...

Sunday Video: Jeremy Allison’s New Presentation ...

2007/08/19 - Sunday Video: Jeremy Allison’s New Presentation on Samba. Posted in Samba, Videos, Google at 11:47 am by Roy Schestowitz ...

Microsoft’s Linux Hijack Continues. Latest ...

2007/08/16 - The same goes for Samba. Roy Schestowitz said,. November 16, 2007 at 10:28 pm. Florian, I’ve gathered some articles which I recommend that you read. ...

Novell: We Won’t be SCO 2.0; BoycottNovell: Who ...

2007/08/14-“Under the patent agreement, customers will receive coverage for Mono, Samba, and OpenOffice.org as well as .NET and Windows Server. ...

Do-No-Evil Wednesday: LinuxWorld Has Buckets to Offer

2007/08/08 - ... Websphere MQ, NFS, SAMBA and others. Through the use of LifeKeeper Extender, any application can be easily protected by LifeKeeper. ...

From Technical Sabotage to Political Games ...

2007/08/04... 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing SMB2 were ordered to “f**k with Samba”‘. Nice, isn’t it? ...

Some Things Never Change — Technical Sabotage at ...

2007/08/03-(This was a Vista to Ubuntu copy operation through samba.) You may have noticed that these bugs have been resolved, at least in part. ...

Open Standards and the GPL in the United Kingdom

2007/07/17 - Forget software politics for a minute — what does the new Samba licensing mean for the version you’re actually running, and for the distribution that ...

Mono Cleanup: Work in Progress (Updated)

2007/07/16 - We saw what happened when Linux supported SMB (Samba). Microsoft changed the goal post and AFAIK inhibited Linux servers from being the primary domain ...

Did GPLv3 Intercept a Planned Patent Deal with ...

2007/07/13 - Samba officially made its transition to GPLv3 just days ago. In the following audiocast, Jeremy Allison explains why Samba chose this new license. ...

Novell Supports .NET and MS OOXML, the BBC ...

2007/07/12 - Don’t think so, at least no more or less than Samba does. Samba makes a Linux server behave like a Windows server. It’s open source and free indeed, ...

Mark Shuttleworth Interview Coming, Request for ...

2007/06/27 - Our controversial domain name aside, I worry that my direct questions intimidated Gunther Deschner (of Samba), who was willing to do an interview with us ...

Interoperability Mockery in Europe - Microsoft ...

2007/06/09 - How Microsoft Used Novell to Stifle the Samba Case in the EU · Possibly Another Microsoft Antitrust Over Abuse of Yahoo, Market; Then Comes Dark (Silver) ...

LG: Another Cross Licensing Deal with Microsoft ...

2007/06/07 - Well, in this case I doubt LG was using OOO, Mono, or even Wine, if we’re talking embedded devices it’s just the Kernel, and maybe Samba that Microsoft ...

Analogy: Novell Kills the Golden Goose for Its ...

2007/06/06-Patents are not the only issue at hand. have a look, for example, at our past discussions on interoperability (e.g. Samba and document formats). ...

GPLv3 (in Current Form) Could Be ”Game Over” to ...

2007/06/01-.. under whatever terms they like - I said before, the Samba project could just as well go proprietary with their code as they go GPLv3 - it’s their right. ...

Could Novell’s Disclosure Have Led to More ...

2007/05/27 - So, the fact that Novell ships OOO in SLED is not a valid defense, perhaps they are paying for a patent license (however denominated) for OOO, or Samba, ...

“***” means the *** and ***, equivalent offerings ...

2007/05/26 - Another noteworthy aspect is the absence of the word Samba from the agreement, especially when OOO and Wine are specifically singled out. ...

Microsoft Now Earns Money from GNU/Linux and Free ...

2007/05/15 - Posted in Microsoft, GNU/Linux, Samba, Servers, Patents, OpenOffice, FOSS at 7: 23 am by Roy Schestowitz. The nasty things which Jeremy Allison once talked ...

Let’s Speculate: What IP Did Novell License?

2007/05/13 - Samba was already doing a splendid job of SMB/CIFS and AD integration, and the argument could be made that Mono was doing quite well in its own regard. ...

Justin Steinman Addresses Some of Boycott Novell ...

2007/04/23 - While we are certain that there are no infringements whatsoever, corporate users of Linux are being driven into Microsoft patent fear (from Samba, ...

Open Source Consortium (UK) Against Microvell ...

2007/04/11 - It is related to Novell’s effect on Samba. C|Net offers no balance at all, which adds insult to injury, given plenty of their Microsoft adverts that give ...

GPLv3: V for Validation

2007/04/08... no Free Software developers or projects are contractually obligated to provide Novell code under any specific terms - if Samba wants to go GPLv3 (or ...

Novell Rejected GNU/Linux a Decade Ago

2007/04/07 - ...and hyping a limited “promise” from Microsoft not to sue the customer for the so called Microsoft IP included in Linux, Samba, Mono and OpenOffice.org. ...

The Samba Project Still Affected by the Novell ...

2007/03/29 - Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications.

OpenOffice Novell Edition… for… Windows?!?!

2007/03/14 - No, it’s what royalty did Novell agree to pay for their distributing Samba using SMB/CIFS? That Samba was somehow needing of patent licensing from MS was ...

Novell Loses Another Samba Developer

2007/03/13 - Mar 13, 2007 ... Following Sambas protest against the Novell/Microsoft deal, as well as Jeremy Allison’s departure, Guenther Deschner is leaving as well. ...

Novell’s Role in Microsoft’s New Battle with the EU

2007/03/01 - After Sambas demonstration against the Novell/Microsoft deal, Shane alluded to the impact ... How Microsoft Used Novell to Stifle the Samba Case in the EU ...

Samba Team Walked Out on Novell? (Corrected)

2007/02/06 - Feb 6, 2007 ... They were working on the Samba Project, developing an open-source file and print server software product than can run on a Microsoft Windows ...

When Companies Eat Microsoft Bait, It Means Trouble

2007/02/12 - Also worth reading:. “The Land of “Nothing for free”" by Jeremy Allison http:// samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/column11.html · Roy Schestowitz said, ...

Self-serving Articles versus the Voices of Freedom

2007/02/10 - Posted in FSF, Microsoft, GNU/Linux, Novell, FUD, Samba, Europe, Interoperability, Virtualization, FOSS at 6:10 am by Roy Schestowitz ...

Microvell and GPLV3 - The FSF Strikes Back

2007/02/03 - Samba is moving to GPLv3. Also see Bruce’s latest item in Technocrat which discusses this. While MySQL AB is having second thoughts about GPLv3, ...

Intellectual Property Litigation and Behind-the ...

2007/01/25 - ... Review · RHX · Ron Hovsepian · Rumour · Samba · Samsung · Scalix · SCO · Search · Security · Servers · Site News · SLES/SLED · Standard · Steve Ballmer ...

Patents Fear Now, Interoperability Later

2007/01/25 - Posted in Microsoft, Novell, Samba, Servers, Interoperability at 8:46 pm by Roy Schestowitz. On the 13th of January, we reported that a new site had been ...

Novell’s Role in a Microsoft Crusade Against ...

2007/01/19 - Also bear in mind that their Open Source labs were possible used to validate that Samba was broken (deliberately). It is just one among other things that ...

“It’s an Interoperability Deal”, They Argue, But ...

2007/01/12 - One of the things you’ll notice quickly is that by default, Windows Vista will not map samba shares - nor can you use Samba as a PDC (Primary Domain ...

Novell Has Accepted the Legal Threats of OpenXML

2007/01/12 - Just a question, how is any of this different than what Samba does? Correct me if I’m wrong, but Samba is a re-implementation of cifs/smb, ...

Novell and Proprietary Audio/Video Codecs

2007/01/03 - We have also explained some negative effects of the deal on Samba and—in particular—on the ongoing interoperability accusations taking place in the EU and ...


2006

Our Interview with Jeremy Allison

2006/12/31 - I’m not going to comment much on why Google is interested in Samba, I’m hoping that will become apparent over time. Samba is becoming a more complete ...

Stafford Masie Presentation at CITI Forum: Transcript

2006/12/27 - There’s a lot we do to the kernel, we’ve got a lot of kernel developers… we’ve got a lot of file system guys, the Samba team- the project team, the Samba ...

A Chair Flies in Waltham?

2006/12/22 - Well, it appears that Allison is instead heading to Google, where Samba will be "pushed forward, harder.", and he will have no further comments on the ...

The Ides of March Approaches for Novell

2006/12/04 - Notable attendees included Sambas Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, and FSF counsel Eben Moglen via teleconference. Novell will be unhappy to note that Tridge made ...

What About the EC Ruling?

2006/11/24 - Novell now legitimizes Microsoft's position that developers, even if they write their own code (samba), still should license and pay royalties to Microsoft ...

Can Novell’s Protection Racket Swing a Timebomb?

2006/11/20 - Samba is trying to help you guys. Why won’t the management listen, admit it has made a mistake and reverse (to the extent possible)? …



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... goals of the Free software movement, which includes GNU/Linux, OpenOffice, and various compatibility and interoperability layers such as Wine and Samba. ...

Action

Posted in Law, Microsoft, Samba, Europe, Asia, Action, Antitrust, FOSS at 10:22 pm by Roy Schestowitz. Microsoft has decided to withdraw all its appeals in ...

AppArmor

Apparently, Novell has layed off the AppArmor team (and it’s confirmed, so this isn’t like when it appeared that the Samba developers left Novell, ...

BSD

Sure thing, many Linux users will consider that they need Samba connectivity, ... NET is however more than a protocol (Samba) or a filesystem format (NTFS): ...

Corel

Jeremy Allison of Samba made the point when he resigned from Novell over the same issue. “Whilst the Microsoft patent agreement is in place there is nothing ...

Fork

... that are controlled by the FSF, in addition to Samba - the very project which provides Novell’s coveted Windows interoperability in the first place. ...

FOSS

... OSI · Patent Covenant · Patents · Petitions · Protocol · Quote · RAND · Red Hat · Review · RHX · Ron Hovsepian · Rumour · Samba · Samsung · Scalix ...

Petitions

Forget software politics for a minute — what does the new Samba licensing mean for the version you’re actually ... Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison explains. ...

Protocol

Over at ZDNet, Samba tells the story about the role of the European Commission in ... Interestingly enough, this agreement which Samba established with ...

Protocol

A few days ago — and just in time for Christmas — we received some exciting news from the Samba team. From a technical point-of-view, barriers have been ...

Samba

It is worth seeing how they try to spin the Samba deal in Novell’s favor, despite the fact that Groklaw, for example, used that deal to explain Novell’s ...

Microsoft Critique: Resources

"Microsoft to hand over Windows secrets to Samba team" @ itworld.com 12/20/2007 .... "Samba asks Novell to scuttle Microsoft deal" @ Linux.com 11/17/2006 ...

NetWare

In 2006, Shane wrote about the impact of the Novell/Microsoft deal on the EC ruling regarding Samba and other things.

Oracle

Mono and Samba developers, for instance, knew about it in advance and had time to voice their opinion. Jeremy Allison told us that he regretted not ...

RAND

... the ECJ on patents. this is big news because all the press says they appeal on the “fine”, but in fact they just want certainty to tax Samba and Red Hat. ...

Scalix

We mentioned Centeris earlier , the context being the GPLv3, which was needed due to compatibility issues with Samba. One curious thing about Centeris shows ...

SueMe

Included Software, Alleged MS Patents Infringed. Linux Kernel, 42. K Desktop Environment (GUI), 65. OpenOffice.org, 45. Email, 15. Wine, Samba, Others, 68 …

IRC

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 24th, 2008

2008/10/25 - trmanco, http://people.samba.org/people/abartlet/a-yea… Oct 24 17:26 ..... Take, for example, my friend and top Samba developer, Jeremy Allison. ...

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 22nd ...

2008/10/23 - Wouldn’t the loss of Microsoft be a problem for Samba since there would be little ... fumanchu2175, OK. I looked at samba.org and it only mentions smb/cifs . ...

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 12th, 2008

2008/10/13 - Schestowitz, “He’s evil too” FUD pattern: “Mono is like Samba” (not: http://www. computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/i… ) Oct 12 10:48 ...

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 24th ...

2008/09/25 - zoobab, they attacked Samba in court, Sep 24 16:19 ... zoobab, ECIS lawyer told me they were also appealing the patent licensing to Samba, Sept 24 16:22 ...

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 21st ...

2008/09/22 - Doug, SAMBA, Sep 21 18:08. Schestowitz, Yes, they use a lot of that. Sept 21 18: 09. _Doug, My question is, what is their thinking behind not actually owning ...


2007 - May

Microsoft inflated its market share by making its servers incompatible with those of competitors. According to a Samba developer, this was deliberate, too. ...

2007 - March

Several Samba developers have left Novell in protest. Most recently is was Günther Deschner, a Samba developer who has recently decided to leave Novell and ...

2007 - February

Samba project leader Jeremy Allison, who left Novell in protest over the ... “We haven’t used anybody else’s IP to develop Samba,” Allison asserts over ...

2007 - October

In Europe, an agreement made with Microsoft contained some Samba/GPL ‘poison’. This is likely to have been no coincidence or an accident. ...

2007 - October

Mark my words, Samba will issue a statement saying the settlement offers them .... As examples he listed Samba’s implementation of SMB/CIFS and Wine’s ...

2006 - December

I’m not going to comment much on why Google is interested in Samba, ... Samba is becoming a more complete solution for integrating Windows and UNIX/Linux 

Billwatch Snippets Database - Part I

Boycott Novell. Boycott Novell. Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications ...

Billwatch Snippets Database - Part III

Also Microsoft misrepresents the availability of Apache and Samba on a Red Hat 5.2 ... Mindcraft equipped the Linux system with Samba 2.0.0 as its SMB file ...

Boycott Novell

Roy Schestowitz: It's not just Samba. We covered many… marbrough: Roy, I've followed your link expecting to… Roy Schestowitz: @Balzac: A Lot of SUSE ...

Boycott Novell

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