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Not likely or well advised.

Not likely or well advised.

Posted Jul 10, 2007 16:30 UTC (Tue) by leoc (subscriber, #39773)
In reply to: Fork ahead...? by dfsmith
Parent article: Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases

Many core samba developers, testers and users work for corporations that benefit immensely by its mere existence (IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Google, etc). So it is far more likely that any forks of the core code would be largely ignored by mainstream users.


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Not likely or well advised.

Posted Jul 10, 2007 18:32 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

If you look at the makup of the main Samba developer's you'll see that although the code is used by EVERYBODY the contributions back are actually kinda small.

There is very very little chance of Samba forking and about nill chance of anything succeeding. The few core Samba developers pretty much do all the work and they all are in agreement in this case.

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