Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/STF-Samba-Investment

[zexelon]

This is awesome news! Germany is really doing tech "right" it seems!

Now... if samba can use some of that to re-write their config methods into something sane that would be even more awesome... though it might totally drain the fund a this point

[emansom]

SMB over QUIC sounds interesting, when paired with effective writeback and read caches that ought to be a nice speed bump!

[TuxTuxTux]

This is awesome news! Germany is really doing tech "right" it seems!

As a German, I've had to lough out very loud, and then I choked, since you seem to be serious.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

As a German, I've had to lough out very loud, and then I choked, since you seem to be serious.

We don't see news about any other country investing in open source projects, so I cheer on the STF and Germany too.

[royce]

As a German, I've had to lough out very loud, and then I choked, since you seem to be serious.

This is the most german response on the internet, ever.

[Estranged1906]

As a German, I've had to lough out very loud, and then I choked, since you seem to be serious.

At least now they're not just doing evil and backwards tech things like Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, Impressumspflicht and Vorratsdatenspeicherung but also something good like supporting free software.

[zexelon]

At least now they're not just doing evil and backwards tech things like Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, Impressumspflicht and Vorratsdatenspeicherung but also something good like supporting free software.

Okay ... I did a quick check and those names are legit program names in German... those names are crimes against the alphabet! I thought English had some rough words... and biologists basically just try to use the entire alphabet twice in each name, but these are in a class of their own!