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It's been a long time

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 05:20 PM EST

Congratulations to the Samba team!

I have been watching the project for years and I don't think the legal fuss is
what caused it to be slow. It is 5 years since the legal victory, and even with
the documentation it has taken them this long to release the product.

It seems to me that the team members have done great work, but there are only a
small number of them and most (all?) only do it on a part-time or spare-time
basis.

What confuses me is why the industry* didn't give them more money to work full
time with more people to release this 2 years ago.

* = Google, IBM, Apple, NAS vendors, router manufacturers, phone makers, auto
industry, consumer electronics makers etc

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

It's been a long time - Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 05:32 PM EST
- "It's not commercially important right now..." - Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 08:03 AM EST
  - "It's not commercially important right now..." - Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 12:45 PM EST
    - "It's not commercially important right now..." - Authored by: charlie Turner on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 04:10 PM EST
      - "It's not commercially important right now..." - Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 08:02 AM EST
        Gnome broke X ,,, - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 10:01 AM EST

There's reality-reality, and there's...

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 10:02 PM EST

...Microsoft reality. The only spec for Microsoft interoperability is what
works with Microsoft. Code to their bugs.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

There's reality-reality, and there's... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 12:27 AM EST
- Apparent-reality - Authored by: SteveRose on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 04:39 AM EST
  - Samba beware: Embrace, extend, extinguish... - Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 12:46 PM EST
    - Samba beware: Embrace, extend, extinguish... - Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 02:52 PM EST

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