• Eheran@lemmy.world
    14 hours

    Update: As an unfortunate update to the original story

    Which was originally published when?

  • Soot [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13 hours

    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.

    • ranzispa@mander.xyz
      12 hours

      You’re welcome to work on maintaining something more functional, rather than criticize someone who just died for no real reason.

      • Soot [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12 hours

        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.

        • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
          12 hours

          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.

          • DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml
            10 hours

            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…