[zppx]

> Presumably, Apple will replace Samba with something that works well for the vast majority of cases.

I doubt it although I wish this becomes true, the protocol is a pain in the ass, even Samba has some quirks, Samba is a very large software (probably millions of lines of code) just to compare.

I just cannot see Apple spending so much time developing this solution only because of their dislike of the GPLv3, sounds dumb to me.

[wladimir]

The only thing that came to mind here is that they'll license the protocol/implementation from MS itself. I'm not sure they'd be open to that, but who knows...