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Microsoft won't dance with Samba

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ZDnet UK; By Ingrid Marson 		Mail this story
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Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence - imposed on it by the EU - will shut the door on open source software such as Samba, say critics.

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mvermeer ·
...only commercial competitors need to be able to compete on equal terms with Microsoft, and they can afford to pay as long as the guys from Redmond don't shut off their air supply. Free software will just continue to reverse engineer and succeed against all odds, without even asking for as much as minimally fair competition.

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