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greggh
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by greggh » Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:18 am
Unlike Linus, who like Linc hates freedom, and thinks GPLv3 went too far, Samba author Andrew Tridgell, in contrast, thinks it doesn't go far enough...
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/s ... 081,00.htm
In a video interview at linux.conf.au in Melbourne, the founder of the Samba project, Andrew Tridgell, said that the anti-DRM provisions didn't go far enough.
"Some people complain a lot about the anti-DRM provisions, and I would have liked to see those actually be even stronger than they are. Because currently they've got some limitations in there that limits some of the anti-DRM provisions of GPLv3 to only being applicable to consumer products. Which means it leaves out, for example, some Samba appliances.
"I'd like to see a future version of the GPL perhaps going a little bit stronger than that and applying it to the non-consumer/enterprise appliances as well" said Tridgell.
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davijordan
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by davijordan » Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:59 am
When you have sshfs, who needs samba?
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Tsuroerusu
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by Tsuroerusu » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:38 am
davijordan wrote:When you have sshfs, who needs samba?
Oh I don't know ... certainly not if you want to run a large-scale file server in a fortune-500 company, definitely not if you wanted to run centralized storage for school districts, and absolutely not if you were gonna access a shared storage- or printer server, at work that might be running that other operating system. /sarcasm
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