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Sunday, December 23, 2007

OA for software protocols

The Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) is a new, non-profit organization devoted to OA for software protocols.  It recently persuaded Microsoft to open up the Windows server protocols in order support full interoperability with Samba, the FOSS suite of networking tools for Unix and Linux machines.  For details, see Serdar Yegulalp's article in Information Week.