On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:34, civileme wrote: > http://news.com.com/2010-1075-882846.html > > Read and understand. > > It is apparent that you will no longer be allowed to use Samba > (with windows) without being a patent infringer. While the patent > is utter crap because prior art existed, it takes ten years and 2 > to 20 million dollars to prove that in court.
But maybe there are enough people already using it to spread the costs. I would be surprised if a court would make an immediate "cease and desist" order which would snafu so many systems, but then this _is_ America ;-) I'm not sure how even the new MS licensing system could be applied to a LAN with Samba on some of the computers (very common where I work). As far as I can understand, the agreement can only apply to software existing on the same machine, not on machines that are networked to it, since this latter would ult�mately include every computer in the world. More specifically, many schools (including my own) andbusinesses (including Microsoft) use Linux on servers, even if they prefer Windows for desktops. > > OTOH, Samba is a nice filesharing system to use in linux. Perhaps > without the yoke of staying interoperable with windows it could > develop into something mighty fine. How does Samba compare with other methods, such as FTP and NFS? Sir Robin -- "Bravo Epictetus!" - Epictetus Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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