Samba's Jeremy Allison On Linux's Future

TRNick writes "Jeremy Allison talks Ubuntu, why he loves Gnome, and the trials and tribulations of open source development in a wide-ranging interview on TechRadar."

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Re:And I seem to prefer KDE

[bill_mcgonigle]

Take your tinfoil at off and educate yourself on the matter. First of all Microsoft cannot sue users of the software just like any other patent case.

You mean like when SCO sued AutoZone and Chrysler for using their "linux patents"?

Secondly the only thing used by Banshee that was invented by Microsoft is the C# language and it is a standardized language. Banshee doens't require any .NET libraries, only Mono libraries which are completely different from .NET libraries.

"Completely different" - by this you mean a faithful reimplementation of the .NET platform? Heck, I'll just copy from the mono website:

The Mono Project is an open development initiative sponsored by Novell to develop an open source, UNIX version of the Microsoft .NET development platform.

For all the bellyaching about Mono over the years Microsoft hasn't even made a peep about it and in fact has helped Moonlight along.

No peeps? Heck, I'll just quote Ballmer:

"The only other thing I would say that is probably germane is we spend a lot of money ... on R & D," [Ballmer] said. "We've spent a lot of money licensing patents, when people come to us and say, 'Hey, this commercial piece of software violates our patent, our intellectual property, we'll either get a court judgment or we'll pay a big check.' And we are going to [settle the matter]. I think it is important that the open-source products also have an obligation to participate in the same way in the intellectual property regime. That's why we've done the deal we have with Novell, where not only are we working on technical interoperability between Linux and Windows but we've also made sure that we could provide the appropriate, for the appropriate fee, [protection for] Novell customers [so that they] also get essentially the right to use our patented intellectual property. And I think its great the way Novell stepped up to kind of say intellectual property matters. People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to eventually compensate us."

I suppose you're waiting for the rapture too.

Oooh, pulling out the random guilt by association fallacy to go with your misstatements. Well played.