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OK, the GPL is perfect if your main objective is to never interoperate with any code under any other license. That doesn't mesh well with the main reason that someone would use Samba, now does it? I'd be perfectly happy to never have any reason to use Samba (i.e. no Microsoft products on the network) but their monopoly still stands and you can thank the GPL attitude that you so nicely parroted: "don't use the code", for the lack of competitive products to replace them. The other free software that you grudging acknowledge has permitted some wonderful things like OS-X to be produced. While Samba can be included as-is in such a package the license prevents all the competitive improvements that could be made by including technology available under another license. We'll never displace Microsoft that way.

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