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Story: Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'

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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 10 June 2005, 9:19 AM)

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This is clearly MS double speak.

If MS gives the technical details to all competitors to meet interoperability/anti-trust requirements, then it is no longer a trade secret.

Also Any SW written using the information provided (now essentially public and it was royalty free) is copyright of the author, not MS and therefore can be released under the GPL or any other licence!!

Max Australia

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