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Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynoteEben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynotePosted Apr 27, 2005 3:33 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (guest, #1159)In reply to: Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote by xoddam Parent article: Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote
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.
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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.
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