Jeremy Allison
Jeremy Allison | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Employer | Ctrl IQ[1] |
| Known for | Samba |
| Website | www |
Jeremy Allisonis acomputer programmerknown for his contributions to thefree softwarecommunity, notably toSamba,[2]a re-implementation ofSMB/CIFSnetworkingprotocol,released under theGNU General Public License.
Other contributions include the early versions of thepwdumppassword crackingutility.[3]
Career
[edit]Free software evangelism
[edit]During his career, Jeremy Allison has consistently defended thefree softwareapproach:
- He pitched makingVantive Corporationcode free software to its founder.[citation needed]
- He persuadedMichael Tiemannto use theGNU General Public LicenseforCygwin.[citation needed]
- He similarly convinced Tim Wilkinson to put theKaffevirtual machineforJavaunder the GPL.[citation needed]
- He was involved in Silicon Graphics' decision to putXFSforLinuxunder the GPL.[citation needed]
This commitment to free software culminated with his decision to leaveNovellin protest of a patent deal that was considered by many as aFUDattack on Linux and otherfree software,and by Allison as breaking section 7 of theGNU General Public License.[4]
References
[edit]- ^@jra_samba (2 April 2023)."I'm incredibly excited to be starting a new position on Monday at CIQ"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
- ^"In eigener Sache: DELUG-DVD".Linux Magazine.29 March 2019.
- ^Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista password crackers - recovery, auditing, and PWDUMP tools
- ^"Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider".Archived fromthe originalon 15 May 2007.