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  • Samba: EU made Microsoft talk again

    Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.

  • Samba author: GPLv3 has further to go

    The creator of the Samba project says GPLv3 could have gone further in its anti-DRM provisions.

  • Latest Samba preview launched

    A second test version of the next generation of the open source file and print sharing software Samba has been released to the public, with numerous bugfixes and feature improvements included.

  • New Samba targets Active Directory

    A next-generation test version of the open source Samba file sharing software has been made available, with features emulating Microsoft's Active Directory ID management software.

  • In depth: Australia's Samba man gets smartest person gong

    The creator of the popular Samba software, which enables Linux machines to act as Windows file-servers, Andrew Tridgell, has been named Australia's smartest person in the ICT sector by Australia's Bulletin Magazine. ZDNet Australia spoke to Tridgell, and Professor Bill Caelli of Queensland's University of Technology (QUT) -- a runner up on the 'Smart 100' list -- about the state of open source in Australia and the future of ICT and open source.

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