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[FSFE PR][EN] FSFE Newsletter: October
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| 1. Antitrust work bears fruit
| 2. Fellowship interview: Rolf Camps
| 3. Free Software licensing and Net TV in Italy
| 4. Behind the Scenes at the Freedom Task Force
| 5. Fellowship meeting in Geneva
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| [...]
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| 1. Antitrust work bears fruit
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| One year after the final court case was won, FSFE is pleased to hear that
| the Samba development team is getting useful interoperability information
| from Microsoft. FSFE's goal was always to ensure that Free Software
| developers would benefit from any published information. This outcome comes
| after 5 years of work from FSFE, the Samba team, and other organisations.
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| http://fsfeurope.org/projects/ms-vs-eu/
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http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/fsfe_s_antitrust_victory_with_samba
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http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2008q4/000221.html
Recent:
FSFE's antitrust victory with Samba
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| FSFE's role in the antitrust case was to ensure that free software developers
| would be able to use any interoperability information that Microsoft would be
| forced to publish. After 5 years of work, the last court case was won last
| year. There were always doubts about whether Microsoft could really be pinned
| down, but from Samba developer Andrew Bartlet's blog, it seems the Samba team
| are now loving the interoperability information.
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http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/fsfe_s_antitrust_victory_with_samba
Samba Team Releases Samba 3.2
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| The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major new
| release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server suite for
| Microsoft Windows clients.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-01-011-26-NW-SV-RL
Related:
FOSS folk who make us proud
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| Five days ago, three members of the free and open source software community
| finally heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from their brows after
| winning a battle they had waged for years.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15896/1090/
Samba's Tridge clusters code and crowds
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| Q: How much will the agreement result in the increased interoperability
| between Windows and Linux/Unix?
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| tridge: For the sections of the protocols we already implement, Samba already
| has quite good interoperability. Where it will make more of a
| difference is allowing us to expand into new areas where we
| previously lacked features that Windows servers have. For example in
| the area of Active Directory replication, and remote indexing.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;486554008;fp;4;fpid;4
Interview with Carlos Piana
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| The lawyer for Samba and the Free Software Foundation Europe explains the
| behind-the-scenes work behind last month's antitrust decision against
| Microsoft.
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| [...]
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| A quite spectacular defence was that about security. Basically it said that,
| unlike the Internet protocols, those keeping together a Microsoft work group
| network were so conceived that the all the servers acted as if they were a
| single distributed entity. In other words they were "tightly coupled",
| closely knitted together so that any intrusion from the outside, a drop-in
| replacement pretending to be a Microsoft Windows server could cause
| irreparable harm and all sort of nefarious problems. Besides, disclosing the
| specifications of their protocols would have required a hardening of the
| protocols, in order to make them resistant to malware attack or simply of
| badly designed third-party software which could have compromised the whole
| infrastructure.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/030808-piana.html
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