Post-Novell Interview With Jeremy Allison

schestowitz notes an interview with Jeremy Allison, of Samba fame, after he had left Novell in protest over the company's deal with Microsoft. From the interview: "My guess is that the negotiations for the useful parts of the agreement (the virtualization part and the federated directory interoperability part) had, as Ron [Hovsepian] says, been going on for months and just before Novell wanted to seal the deal Microsoft turned up with 'there's just this one more thing we want you to sign...' and in desperation to get the other parts of the deal done they rushed it through."

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Good Quote

[dozer]

From TFA, on how the deal can be GPLv2-legal and still wrong:

If you're screwing over some of your major suppliers by following what your lawyers see as the letter of a license, not the good faith intent of the license, then you can't expect those suppliers to say "well done, you really tricked us on that one.....".

Re:Sue samba?

[Anomolous Cowturd]

But... Samba is created by an Australian team. DMCA won't reach them.

That might have been true before the recent "free trade" agreement.