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Story: Microsoft's EU proposal is monstrous, says Samba

Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 25 February 2005, 9:32 PM)

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The critics of the EU - Microsoft agreement are correct, the agreement will stifle inovation.

Why should SAMBA or any other Open Source Software project derive the benefits from developers of proprietary software without either indemnifying the original developer or providing financial reward ?

Being forced to provide source code or protocol specifications to open source vendors is a disincentive to comercial software vendors from innovating their software.

Why should SAMBA derive all the new features in SMB/CIFS (such as support for Kerberos authentication, Encrypting File System, Roaming Profiles, Distributed File System) without recompencing Microsoft ?

The EU decision was stupid and politically motivated.

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This all makes one huge assumption:

Microsoft innovates.

We hear stories about how Microsoft buys up companies left and right. Why not actually CREATE something for once? I mean, if they know their own software, they wouldn't NEED to buy out some antivirus software company.

Oh, yeah, better still, how about PROPERLY ENGINEERING your products for a change so you wouldn't NEED to buy some antivirus software company (at their side) or antivirus software (for the end user side)?

Sorry, pal, astroturfing gets you nowhere.