[Sheflug] Re: Heads-up -- Microsoft endangers Samba?

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris

> open-source anything, thus Samba might have some problems in future
> development...


Jeremy Allison was giving a few small examples of this at our seminar 
that took place in February....

http://www.sheflug.co.uk/linux_seminar.html

he was saying that it was out of his hands and mostly to do with the 
U.S legal system.  As in fact the Register correctly explains.   This 
part of the report on the Register kind of drew my attention a bit...

"Microsoft's new assault follows a year's worth of rhetoric aimed at 
slandering the GPL and those who, in the name of software freedom, 
advocate the use of GPL. Now, that war of words has been followed up 
with a legal attack," states Bradley Kuhn, executive director of the 
FSF. "In copylefted Free Software, Microsoft now faces a rival that 
they cannot buy nor run out of business. As expected, they've turned 
to their patent pool as their last resort to assail us." 

I've spoken to Bradley in his own office in Boston.  He's pretty much 
like anyone else.  Down to earth ... not all that passionate about 
anything... wiling to forgive etc ...  So, I couldn't think that he 
would be willing to attack anyone or anything either legally or 
physically.  Which means that someone must have had a go at him 
first ?

Anyway, things get more curious all of the time :)

Thanks


-- 
Richard
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