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[Serge Skorokhodov <suralis-s@mtu-net.ru>]

Здравствуйте!

К знающим людям. Не могли бы Вы прокомментировать следующую
цитату?

> Microsoft's latest concessions regard its Common Internet File
> System (CIFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) protocol
> technologies, which Windows servers and desktop machines use to
> communicate over networks such as the Internet. Microsoft says
> that it won't assert its intellectual property rights over CIFS
> and will instead offer it openly as an Internet standard. In
> August, Microsoft will also begin licensing its proprietary
> enhancements to SMB, giving third parties the information they
> need to write compatible products. Some SMB-compatible products
> already exist, such as Samba, an SMB add-on for UNIX and UNIX-
> like OSs such as Linux. But because the SMB format was
> proprietary, Samba's developers had to reverse-engineer SMB,
> which changes somewhat with each Windows version. Microsoft's
> opening up of SMB is a big win for UNIX/Linux/Windows
> interoperability.

-- 
Serge Skorokhodov aka suralis
13.03.2002 suralis-s@mtu-net.ru