Perhaps you should go out of win in total, like very other big cities and companies did and will do it in the future Greetz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philip Edelbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] how legal is samba
> I understand that the smb protocol is not in any violation, what i was > talking about was does setting up a samba box to authenticate windows > users conflict with any laws, seeing as how you are now negating the > requirement for a licensed windows server. I would love to get rid of > our Win2k pdc but my manager is a little sketchy since we have been in > the eyes of the BSA for some time now (another story). > Jason > > Philip Edelbrock wrote: > > > SMB is a spec from IBM, if I remember right. M$ implements it (or a > > flavor of it anyway), but they don't 'own' it or have some proprietary > > closed hold on the standard. I.e., Samba is not reverse-engineered, > > if that's what you are thinking. It also can't be(?) used to > > circumvent copyright, which is what the DMCA is all about, right? > > > > Be careful about posting stuff like this to the list. It's flame bait > > for sure. ;') > > > > Take care. > > > > > > Phil > > > > Jason Adams wrote: > > > >> With all this DMCA crud, is samba a target for a IP case from MS > >> > >> Jason Adams > >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
