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[News] Microsoft Snubs Eclipse on Interoperability

Eclipse executive chides Microsoft on interoperability

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| Commenting on Microsoft, Milinkovich said Microsoft sends 
| representatives to EclipseCon every year. Eclipse and Microsoft
| officials in attendance then agree that a meeting ought to be set
| up between the two sides. But afterward, "they never call,"
| Milinkovich said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070306/tc_infoworld/86590

It is precisely the same story with Samba, according to its lead developer's
hearing at the EC.


Related:

FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba

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| 'In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy
| Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing
| SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".'
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| Vista is to ship with a new version of SMB, called SMB2. At
| minute 40 in this FLOSS Weekly podcast, Jeremy Allison of
| Samba talks of behavior that will flood the network with
| 1500 packets just to do a network file delete. This will
| turn Vista computers into a DOS (Denial of Service) attack
| upon Samba based computers on the network.
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14


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| 'A number of Microsoft ex-employees and certified developers have 
| referred to much of Microsoft's formal documentation as "undocumentation"'
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http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/Supp_Rpt_Andrew_Schulman.pdf

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