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Samba: EC ruling made Microsoft talk again

Samba: EC ruling made Microsoft talk again

...the University of Melbourne for the 2008 linux.conf.au, Samba author Andrew Tridgell expressed his satisfaction at finally being able to communicate with Microsoft... Read more

12 March, 2008 by Chris Duckett and Marcus Browne

Samba 'pleased' with Microsoft co-operation

...90s we had a very good engineering relationship with [Microsoft]," Samba author Andrew Tridgell said during a presentation on clustering Samba at the linux.conf... Read more

31 January, 2008 by Angus Kidman
Samba: EC ruling made Microsoft talk again

Samba: EC ruling made Microsoft talk again

...the University of Melbourne for the 2008 linux.conf.au, Samba author Andrew Tridgell expressed his satisfaction at finally being able to communicate with Microsoft... Read more

12 March, 2008

Software patents, and how to route around them

...law intervenes, we need to find technical ways around software patents. Now Andrew Tridgell, a developer working on Samba has posted a patch that retains... Read more

3 July, 2009

Samba and Microsoft strike interoperability deal

...designed to facilitate interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients. Andrew Tridgell, creator of Samba, said in a statement: "We are very pleased... Read more

21 December, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Samba 4 enters public testing

...Wednesday in conjunction with a speech on the subject by Samba creator Andrew Tridgell — generally known as Tridge — at Linux.conf.au in New Zealand... Read more

26 January, 2006 by Renai LeMay

Samba leader hired by Novell

...industry-funded consortium that earlier this year hired Allison's Samba collaborator, Andrew Tridgell, who recently caused uproar with his work on a source control... Read more

28 April, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Lack of testing 'threatening stability of Linux'

...Morton commented on the ongoing war of words between Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tridgell over the recent loss of a licence to use BitKeeper to... Read more

22 April, 2005 by Angus Kidman

Torvalds unveils Git

...community to copy BitKeeper — in particular an effort by Torvalds' OSDL colleague, Andrew Tridgell, who was working on a BitKeeper-compatible project called SourcePuller. Torvalds... Read more

21 April, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

13-year old to address Linux conference

...Love (Linux kernel developer), Andrew Morton (Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer) and Andrew Tridgell (primary author of Samba). As usual, a host of mini-conferences... Read more

2 February, 2005 by Renai LeMay

Open source defence centre launched

...an additional level of legal help. OSDL in January hired Samba creator Andrew Tridgell -- the second person to attain OSDL fellow status after Linux creator... Read more

1 February, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Linux hackers converge in Australia

...their code under an open-source licence. Speakers at the conference include Andrew Tridgell, the creator of Samba -- an open-source Windows-compatible file and... Read more

6 January, 2004 by Brendon Chase

Microsoft steps on Samba's toes

The latest spat between the software giant and the open-source movement could have implications for its antitrust case Read more

10 May, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Linux companies part ways

The deal between TurboLinux and Linuxcare - which could have created a Linux giant - has been called off Read more

2 May, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

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