Microsoft Contributes to Samba, World Keeps Spinning
Amid all the tempest and turmoil here in the technology world, it can be easy to get lost in the details.
After all, with all the software patent battles, the endless debates over the Linux desktop, and a never-ending array of other topics to quibble over, who can be blamed for missing the proverbial forest with all these distracting "trees" standing in the way?
Events of late have provided an excellent illustration.
A 'Notable' Submission
"If you follow the Samba Technical Mailing List, you may have noted a patch submission that came in on October 10th, 2011," wrote Samba team member Chris Hertel in a blog post recently.
"As often happens, a couple of developers at a company found a way to improve core Samba code," Hertel went on. "They got permission to submit the patches under their own copyright and the terms of the GPL, and they sent the patches in.
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