<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That's always been true of the Samba project in particular. <div><br></div><div>Back in the day when they were first reverse engineering the protocol, they found ways for incoming network traffic to blue screen the machine with nothing more than the samba test harness. They still tell Microsoft about all the issues they find. Making their product better everyday :) <div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi, a co-worker of mine, Michael Hudson (of PyPy fame), recently went<br>to OSDC in sydney. He reported an interesting quote from Andrew<br>Tridgell:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> * an extremely interesting keynote from Andrew Tridgell about the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> settlement of the EU anti-trust suit against Microsoft with regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> to documenting all their protocols -- it seems that Microsoft have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> basically made a complete 180 turn in their strategy here and are<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> going way beyond the agreement they were compelled to accept from the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> court. The best quote was "What happens when the largest software<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> company in the world learns to write test cases and documentation?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> They get better. Yes, Windows is going to get better... Sorry about<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> that",<br></blockquote><br>I would expect Andrew to be the last person in the world to blow smoke<br>in this regard so this is quite an impressive statement.<br><br>--<br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>