Google Brings Samba, CC Early Gifts

Samba and Creative Commons, both with ties in the open source community, benefited from Google's largesse, an early present to a pair of organizations for the holidays.

Samba project will enjoy Google's favor to the tune of $20,000. Samba software provides file and print services across operating system platforms, allowing for example Windows clients to connect to a Linux system for those services. "This is fantastic news for the Samba project" wrote how the donation is "a vote of confidence for the work of the chartiable CC." "This doesn't surprise me too much, since Google has been at least sympathetic to the open-source camp," Carter said. "I don't for a minute simply dismiss the idea that Google most likely has ulterior motives, because they could, but sometimes companies do nice things for others." Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.