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    Microsoft has made public over 14,000 pages of preliminary technical documentation on the protocols built into its Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 products.

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    The Free Software Foundation is lobbying the European government to reject the server licence that Microsoft has proposed following the European Commission's antitrust ruling. Microsoft's terms, says the FSF, will mean that open source software such as the widely-used Samba file and print server software, will not be included in the interoperability measures intended by the EU.

  • Samba and Microsoft strike interoperability pact

    Open source software project Samba has signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive protocol documentation for the software giant's Windows workgroup server products.

  • Samba prepares 3.2 launch under GPLv3

    Samba will release the next version of its server software under the General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), which was launched by the Free Software Foundation last month.

  • Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'

    The European branch of the Free Software Foundation (FSFE) has accused Microsoft of freezing out Samba, the open source work group server operating system, in its final attempt to comply with last year's European antitrust ruling.

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