samba - Jun 2008 - Did Microsoft release any useful information . . . ?

Hello,

I just read on an austrian news site (
http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/289596/
  ) that Microsoft released documentation of some of their protocols.
On the site there are 4 links to Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jun08/06-30InteropUpdatePR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc216514.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/intellectualproperty/protocols/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/

Now my question is:

Is there any useful information for open source developers, especially  
samba devs, in some of this docs??
Especially in the smb and smb2 docs found here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc246231.aspx
  and
here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc246482.aspx.


Hopefully it is useful on some way.

Greetings from Vienna, Austria.
Markus




Markus Bajones
bajo@fet.at
Studienvertretung Elektrotechnik
and der TU Wien

Fachschaft Elektrotechnik
Gusshausstra?e 27-29
1040 Wien
www.fet.at

Quoting Markus Bajones (bajo@fet.at):
> Now my question is:
>
> Is there any useful information for open source developers, especially  
> samba devs, in some of this docs??
>From Tridge's talk at SambaXP (last April in G?ttingen, Germany), I
understood that, yes, these documentations have already proven and
will prove to be useful.

Moreover, he essentially pointed that this process also re-opened the
gates allowing Microsoft engineers to better collaborate, at the
technical level, with Free Software developers, particularly the Samba
Team. Thus re-establishing the link that was there in the 90's.

Of course, some months later, some input from Samba Team developers
woul dbe interesting wrt that matter.