Flying under the radar, Microsoft developers submitted a Samba patch in early October and now the Samba team publicly thanks them.
"A few years back, a patch submission from coders at Microsoft would have been amazing to the point of unthinkable, but the battles are mostly over and times have changed," Samba team member Chris Hertel writes in a blog post. "We still disagree on some things such as the role of software patents in preventing the creation of innovative software; but Microsoft is now at the forefront of efforts to build a stronger community and improve interoperability in the SMB world."
Samba and Microsoft
Launched in early 1992, the Samba project provides a standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Samba helps integrate Linux/Unix servers and desktops into Active Directory environments using the winbindd daemon.
The Samba/Microsoft relationship has come a long way since 2007, when the European Commission's March 24th, 2004 decision in the antitrust lawsuit required Microsoft to make protocol documentation available to competitors. In fact, earlier this year we wrote about Microsoft warming up to open source when the company launched WebMatrix, a website development and deployment tool and Orchard, a .NET open source content management system.
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