On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Slavko <li...@slavino.sk> wrote: > The Samba doesn't allow to use of proprietary software. Samba only uses > the SMB protocol (i can be wrong, but it is standardized), which Windows > uses (as primary) too. But you can connect two Samba between themselves, > then no Windows is needed.
I don't know whether Samba<->Samba is useful in the complete absence of Windows or OS/2 (yes, I've used Samba to talk to an OS/2 server; it's enormously better than Windows, but still non-free, so for this discussion it's similar), given that there are alternatives such as sshfs. But I doubt that exchanging documents between two LibreOffice users, in the absence of all hint of Microsoft Office, would not be done using a Microsoft Office file format, due to inevitable imperfections in the codecs. And you wouldn't install a brand new Debian Linux system and decide to format your drive NTFS, unless you really were expecting to use it from Windows. Samba, LibreOffice, and the NTFS driver (at least, I checked ntfs-3g, don't know about others) are all in section 'main', and are thus considered to be completely free. Do you want the freedom to mount NTFS volumes in Debian, or do you want to demand more freedom by stopping people from using NTFS anywhere? (This isn't just about mounting that second internal drive, of course; removable media can be formatted with any file system.) ChrisA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/captjjmoqvorhgx2phcommvw1oo7pyva3q9dl_jg0xzmwai3...@mail.gmail.com
