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

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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. ...

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 Samba’s Allison *did* ...

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? ...

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. ...

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#). ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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? ...

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: ...

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: ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

2007/12/26 - 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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). ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

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

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

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? ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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). ...

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. ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

2006/12/31 - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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)? …

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

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 ...

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, ...

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): ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

... 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. ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 

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