On Wednesday 30 June 2004 09:03, Daniel Lawson wrote:
One thing I forgot to mention when Greig asked me to talk about Samba in general, is that I am completely and utterly sick of samba playing catchup. Samba will always chase behind Microsoft's implementation. If Samba ever fully catches up and can play the AD game perfectly, and has zero problems, MS only has to move to another structure. It's a futile game to play at. ...
Thank you for mentioning this. Some of us don't learn, witness Mono.
Mono sounds like an excellent idea, and a better option for "write once, publish on Windows and Linux" which could well mean we can migrate software away from depending on a Windows platform. It was always Microsoft's "stated goal" to let other people build .NET VM's, and the specs are published. I realise that the major complaint is that Microsoft could take it all away at any time, but to someone who hasn't looked in detail, it sounds that "C# is more open than Java". I believe that what they've implemented of the Mono class libraries are from the published spec; what Samba have implemented is largely reverse engineered. Craig