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John Terpstra on Challenges to Free Software
Telex4 writes "Anyone who has read John Terpstra's article on Groklaw about Intellectual Property (IP) rights will be interested to read an interview I did recently with John at KDE's World Summit. We talked about what IP means to the free software community, how we can drive GNU/Linux adoption, and how he thinks the IT market will change in coming years. He gives us a lot to think about in terms of what more we should be doing."
Having value is not a requirement of something to be property. To be property, it has to have the ability to be owned, possessed, controlled. Whether or not it has any value is irrelevant to its state as property.
Why don't you just pay for a SAMBA consulant to do the job for you?
It is not called the "Samba-Unofficial-HOWTO". Its name is "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO Collection and Reference Guide".
John didnt "publish" it. It was Prentice-Hall PTR who published it (ISBN: 0-13-145355-6) as a printed book at first.
John didnt do this "in his own name". He acted, alongside Jelmer R. Vernooij as one of two editors. And both their role as editors is clearly named on the envolope and inside the printed book.
John and Jelmer acted with the consent of the Samba Team when doing this work.
John wrote large parts of the HOWTO Collection from scratch, or heavily re-wrote them, putting in several months of full-time work.
How to spread the incoming royalties was agreed to by the Samba Team and is not your business. Oh, BTW, have you bought a copy? Are 5 Dollars from the royalty stock of gold actually coming from your pockets, Mister? Thank you very much then.
The HOWTO Collection actually is now released under a Free license and became part of the Samba source code. So you havent bought a copy of the book? Fine, you can take it as a PDF for free and print/read it without paying any royalty to someone. Enjoy.
The HOWTO Collection is partly based on previously existing documentation. For each chapter are listed the related authors, including ones who have contributed years ago. The attribution list is 5 printed pages long.
I should know that all, because I am the principal author of the 2 chapters of the book that deal with printing (one of them being a major re-write of a previously existing chapter).
John stopped working for an SCO-related company long ago, and long before their lawsuite against IBM and Free Software started..
The dork are you, Mister.
Kurt Pfeifle,
(Linuxprinting.org)
Actually I think you are blowing smoke up our asses. I have done 4 novell to samba migrations in the last year and all of them where rather easy. The first little bit of advise I can give you is to migrate into samba gradually, dont try to bang it in over night. Load a server and just start migrating, it just is not that hard. If it is too hard then just pay microsoft all the bucks and leave this stuff to the experts.
Got Code?
So I'm still waiting for a reasonable migration path from NT Server to Samba.
I've done a few of these. Migrating ACL's and file data is easy -- NT Server does have support for POSIX ACL's, and MS-based ACL's can be converted to POSIX by both Samba and NT.
The only difficulty is cloning user data, which is incredibly simple if your PDC handles all user/group info. Samba can authenticate (and replicate) LDAP or even native NT directory information. If you move to Samba as a PDC, you replicate userdata by LDAP before shutting off your NT PDC and dropping your Samba box in PDC mode.
It's somewhat timeconsuming, as the data is best copied from old->new devices (though just buying one "temp" machine to hold the data from each old machine as the machine is converted is certainly do-able). However, it is relatively painless, especially since Samba3 has gone production.
I actually do this work on a consulting basis, and I've never had a major issue. I'm happy to answer basic questions if you send me a private msg (no e-mail here).
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