Sign of the Times.....

[Get_Ya_Wicked_On]

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061221081000710

[KingBahamut]

"The legendary Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame) has resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls 'a mistake' that will be 'damaging to Novell's success in the future.' His main issue with the deal, though, is 'that even if it does not violate the letter of the license, it violates the intent of the GPL license the Samba code is released under, which is to treat all recipients of the code equally.' He leaves the company at the end of this month. He explained why in a message sent to several Novell email lists, and the message included his letter to management."

External links
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061221081000710
http://samba.org/~jra/
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20061218045851480


Comments -

This is just a sign of the coming furor over this mess. The very core of the issue destroys the community. Just as Allison himself states.

[BarfBag]

I have a feeling that SUSE as we know it is going to die. Unfortunately, it's the perfect OS right now. Perfectly balanced with ease of use and tools for those who are advanced. It's the only OS I know of that would please both my computer illiterate friends, and me.

Is the original team even working on it?

[BarfBag]

Someone beat you to the trigger. (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=323008)

*edit* Pay no attention here. This topic was merged.

[Get_Ya_Wicked_On]

Well that renders this post thread pretty useless now, doesn't it?

[lotusleaf]

A good read: "The Land of "Nothing for free" (http://samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/column11.html) - Jeremy Allison Column Archives

Edit: Related /. coverage & comments: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/12/21/167258.shtml

[mips]

Lol, wonder if he will take sabdfl up on his offer...

[ssam]

a few more people should listen to the interview with Nat Friedman on lugradio http://lugradio.org/ (Season 4 Episode 8)