Re: NT Services for UNIX

David Collier-Brown (davecb@Canada.Sun.COM)
Wed, 13 May 1998 09:11:24 -0400

Date:	Wed, 13 May 1998 09:11:24 -0400
From:	David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>
To:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>, Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: NT Services for UNIX

I wrote:
> > Perhaps they're just trying to get a foot in the door?

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> i'm prepared to help them.

Hmmn: in what sense?

If I **weren't** Dogbert, and worked for Microsoft,
I'd be tempted to try releasing selected bits of
specification and sources to the public domain, in
order to encourage developers (us!) to use MS protocols
and services.

--dave
[ This is based an a mildly brilliant analysis of Corel's
jumping onto the open source bandwagon: Edsel Adap proposed
that it's the modern equivalent of convincing a standards
body to do it ``your way'']

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