Update: As an unfortunate update to the original story
Which was originally published when?
The 22nd of August
CIFS / Samba? You mean that thing I have never ever in decades of work seen consistently work properly?
a longtime IBM engineer while since 2018 is employed by Microsoft
Right, that tracks.
I mean in all seriousness I’m sure it was useful for some people so RIP. I shall selfishly hope this means we move onto something a bit more functional.
You’re welcome to work on maintaining something more functional, rather than criticize someone who just died for no real reason.
I didn’t criticise the guy beyond the humorous observation that he worked at companies known for writing rubbish software. I already contribute to more functional protocols, thanks. No need to be an arse about it.
He’s not being an arse. You shat on a man’s life work. It’s something he was remembered for. Also, Samba has been a life saver more times than I care to remember.
Yeah, I don’t know where their hate is coming from. I use cifs-utils to mount smb volumes on linux DAILY and it works perfectly on every popular distro. Maybe they were being sarcastic? Trolling? Meh, I’m shrugging it off…
