>On November 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> actually a second attempt at drawing your attention to the fact >> that compliance with M$ quirks and kinks is not something to be >> ashamed of but rather reason to be proud. > >I think you'll find that the Samba team are quite familiar with this >opinion, especially in the context of the Samba TNG fork :) > >Waider. >-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. Ron babe,
TNG fork was a preventable disaster. I think the problem is a lot of us are sitting on our thumbs and letting Jeremy and the band pick out all the problems for us. When schedules get too tight and there are different priorities there's always a gang leader for a schism. That it plays into the hands of the great Satan duplicating the effort and splitting the community is a matter of grave concern for all. M$ will underbid any serious attempt at a mass migration to open source with hefty rebates, and there's little we can do against that except strive to be a serious alternative and not a bunch of fundamentalists picking at articles of faith. What's wrong about admitting that the u-g-o octals were too narrow a view of security and accepting that a businessperson may be a visionary in her own right by just thinking a little out of *nix box? For open source to have a chance, it needs to be ahead of the pack and you can't do that before you catch up. A little rant helps relieve the tension of an admin's day of work. Bye now, Dragan PS: On a different note: Ron, do you have a constructive comment on my posting '"Special" link folders - Readonly attrib', Tue Nov 26 20:53:28 2002, or are you just a kibitzer? _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba