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Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote
Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote
Posted Apr 27, 2005 2:05 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)Parent article: Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote
> Meanwhile, Samba 4, in particular, may not be safe;
> there are likely to be patents out there. "Expect trouble."
The Samba developers need all the support they can get in this respect.
It is not helpful for prominent members of the community to be
painting ugly pictures of lead Samba developers as playing foul.
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Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote
Posted Apr 27, 2005 3:33 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]
I didn't read that as an attack on the Samba developers. It is simply a statement that there are likely to be bogus patents in the problem space Samba solves, and someone is probably going to try and use one of them against Samba.
Samba needs support
Posted Apr 27, 2005 4:22 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]
Sorry -- I was trying to have a dig at Linus Torvalds (lead Linux kerneldeveloper), who has been lambasting Andrew Tridgell (lead Samba
developer) for messing up the BitKeeper arrangement by exercising his
right to reverse-engineer wire protocols.
For some lame reason I thought my post might look better if I didn't name
the protagonists I was referring to, just as Moglen refers to 'the
monopoly' without naming a particular large proprietary software company.
Silly of me.
The point remains, that trying to interoperate with widely used software
(in whatever domain; if you're looking at distributed source code
development then BK is widely used) is a legitimate pursuit which is
threatened, if not by copyright and silly EULAs then by patents.
Free software users need free software which interoperates with
proprietary software. More to the point, we must stand behind the right
of people to do what it takes to develop such free software.
Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote
Posted May 10, 2005 15:00 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
> The Samba developers need all the support they can get in this respect.FSFE is doing it's bit, if you're looking for a target for donations: http://fsfeurope.org/projects/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.en.html