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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-15 22:41:26
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Add reference for Samba history.

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@@ ... / @@ -576,7 +576,9 @@ to fuel a commercial system around that software. @@
 For example, consider the Samba file server system that allows Unix-like
 systems (including GNU/Linux) to serve files to Microsoft Windows systems.
 Two graduate students originally developed Samba in their spare time and
 it was deployed noncommercially in academic environments. However, very
 it was deployed noncommercially in academic environments\footnote{See
   \href{http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/docs/samba/history}{Andrew Tridgell's
     ``A bit of history and a bit of fun''}.  However, very
 soon for-profit companies discovered that the software could work for them
 as well, and their system administrators began to use it in place of
 Microsoft Windows NT file-servers. This served to lower the cost of

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