The Active Network
ActiveMac Anonymous | Create a User | Reviews | News | Forums | Advertise  
 

  *  

  SAMBA, Microsoft and the real Issue
Time: 14:05 EST/19:05 GMT | News Source: ZDNet UK | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

What most Microsofties vs the Open Source adherents seem to have missed in all the drek passed back and forth is that Microsoft was taken to court in the US and the EU on its monopolist practices. The EU forced Microsoft to comply with the disclosure of source it required for "inter-operability" between Microsoft's OS and the rest of the OS world. That was something the DoJ flying monkeys in Washington DC couldn't seem to understand and that it was the important legal precedent needed to allow ALL operating systems to be able to communicate with each other.

SAMBA compatibility for Microsoft's OS seems to finally gotten through to the idiots' brains in MS's legal department as something that might actually be good for Microsoft. What it means is that the last 10% of computers in the world that won't be running Microsoft software will now hopefully be able to talk to Microsoft OS images on the other 90% of the world's computers. DUH! That is what is truly significant here.

What Microsoft has to understand is that cooperating with organized open source programmers is good for them. They can learn from a programmer culture that is NOT Redmond-centered and can learn something new and perhaps even better than what the droids in Redmond can do.

Write Comment
Return to News

  Displaying 426 through 429 of 429
Prev | First
  The time now is 3:37:29 PM ET.
Any comment problems? E-mail us
#426 By 4240821 (193.160.216.96) at 2/10/2025 3:13:23 AM
https://hotpic.cc/album/E471yDVbMAmky
https://hotpic.cc/album/Cb7FsXi33z99h
https://hotpic.cc/album/v43Bo05TyUfUK
https://hotpic.cc/album/0edXhuP0Tbket
https://hotpic.cc/album/cyDtEko5Xf3Uq
https://hotpic.cc/album/gRK85slxcUN7I
https://hotpic.cc/album/wbrb5cC0t199Q
https://hotpic.cc/album/UG67PB94nCg7J
https://hotpic.cc/album/3OeOE5OD3hGGh
https://hotpic.cc/album/BFSbIZw8ni6iC

#427 By 4240821 (142.111.253.203) at 2/10/2025 10:09:59 PM
https://hotpic.cc/album/2ZMIgfxoR35Rk
https://hotpic.cc/album/DBK7SXELJZokc
https://hotpic.cc/album/Jtv9xwII8y27h
https://hotpic.cc/album/QzypKIIwXDqKO
https://hotpic.cc/album/5rw0I6VwRHnDW
https://hotpic.cc/album/kD9c6g7iwJ8AN
https://hotpic.cc/album/2XhGbCjFp8MdL
https://hotpic.cc/album/2TNd3KDZXPEwg
https://hotpic.cc/album/EWDqkUV1tnGaq
https://hotpic.cc/album/rTVCBcNSW1Nps

#428 By 4240821 (193.36.231.79) at 2/11/2025 8:15:38 AM
https://hotpic.cc/album/FZbsKa5ob3bQG
https://hotpic.cc/album/oGuEQ33c7UJNx
https://hotpic.cc/album/c1kg22F7VsZCt
https://hotpic.cc/album/MbdBHKukRK7yi
https://hotpic.cc/album/g4KQamCLrS44d
https://hotpic.cc/album/drvgAUvihTOxS
https://hotpic.cc/album/URnjCujZVIsl9
https://hotpic.cc/album/mgP9W3JHHbiwR
https://hotpic.cc/album/Gs1cGM3WGVNPv
https://hotpic.cc/album/IAginyfafhngq

#429 By 4240821 (142.252.107.167) at 2/11/2025 8:18:34 PM
https://hotpic.cc/album/nHAL1F9vCQuve
https://hotpic.cc/album/AeEq02o3UlLCT
https://hotpic.cc/album/FVZq5XL0zpuQt
https://hotpic.cc/album/cAhb8y3YcIuFa
https://hotpic.cc/album/finUboPMNJ1Wj
https://hotpic.cc/album/evKN1Gj50dkBI
https://hotpic.cc/album/6lo2QYmZ2p9Mu
https://hotpic.cc/album/ytub3lawFs7ud
https://hotpic.cc/album/YgT3VWEh5w5nS
https://hotpic.cc/album/KNtaMxpuV6ItH

Write Comment
Return to News
  Displaying 426 through 429 of 429
Prev | First
  The time now is 3:37:29 PM ET.
Any comment problems? E-mail us
User name and password:

 

  *  
  *   *