• Soot [any]English
    -19•3 days ago

    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
      25•3 days ago

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

      • Soot [any]English
        -11•3 days ago

        I didn’t criticise the guy beyond the humorous observation that he worked at companies known for writing rubbish software. I already contribute to other functional protocols, thanks. No need to be an arse about it.

        • Jo Miran
          20•3 days ago

          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•3 days ago

            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…