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Samba: TomTom suit tries to undermine GPL

...licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals, according to Samba project leader Jeremy Allison. Allison told ZDNet UK that through lawsuits such as the one... Read more

10 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Samba leader quits Novell over Microsoft deal

Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because... Read more

22 December, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Samba will move to GPLv3

...the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licences for all future releases of Samba," said Jeremy Allison, a Samba project leader. "We feel this is an important change... Read more

10 July, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Samba leader hired by Novell

Novell has hired Jeremy Allison, one of the core programmers behind a widely used open source... Read more

28 April, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft's EU proposal is monstrous, says Samba

...server interoperability licence. Speaking to ZDNet UK this week, Samba co-creator Jeremy Allison launched a damning attack on the proposed licence, calling the fees... Read more

4 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft founds and funds open-source forum

...at the Red Hat conference in Chicago on 3 September, Samba lead Jeremy Allison told an audience that it was a mistake to think of... Read more

11 September, 2009 by Tom Espiner

TomTom joins Linux protection group

...application of several patents, several of which are Linux-related. According to Jeremy Allison, leader of the Samba project, Microsoft's suit is an attempt... Read more

23 March, 2009

Microsoft's secret plan behind the TomTom suit?

...distro with FAT compatibility would qualify - we then get a post from Jeremy Allison, who's a big cheese at samba.org and thus well... Read more

5 March, 2009

Microsoft-TomTom suit puts open source on guard

...retain good relations to Floss (Free, Libre and Open Source Software) developers," Jeremy Allison, a prominent figure in the Samba open-source community, wrote in... Read more

27 February, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Linux kernel developer's guide published

...dictator. Linus in the Linux kernel has lieutenants around him, [as does] Jeremy Allison at Samba Read more

15 August, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Sun kicks off JavaOne with OpenSolaris

How many cards Sun is keeping up its sleeve for the rest of this week’s JavaOne developer conference is anybody’s guess.... Read more

6 May, 2008

Microsoft publishes more protocol documentation

...gone so far, according to some open-source specialists. Commenting in February, Jeremy Allison, a founder of the open-source Samba project that lets Linux... Read more

9 April, 2008 by Adrian Bridgwater

Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move

The software giant has agreed to share more of its technology, but many insiders view the announcement as tokenism Read more

22 February, 2008 by Steven Shankland

Microsoft's open-source patent threat still intact

...only for 'non-commercial' open source, which is a bit meaningless," said Jeremy Allison, a founder of the open-source Samba project that lets Linux... Read more

22 February, 2008 by Steven Shankland

EC cool on Microsoft 'open source' announcement

...cover interoperability, and refrain from suing non-commercial implementations of its products. Jeremy Allison, a prominent figure in the Samba open-source community, welcomed the... Read more

21 February, 2008 by David Meyer and Tom Espiner

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