Windows vs. Open Source in 2007
The open souce arena is forming a rather formidable fan following. In the beginning this was a small community known onl to a niche audience but today we see a different pisture. Commercial software and the the open source software seem to be at the same footing.
On the other hand, many a one is not too happy with the merge between the open source community and the commervcial community. Jeremy Allison has resigned as the lead programmer in Novell. The rumour mills speculate the reason for his resignation to be Novell’s partnership with Microsoft.
Allison was cited as saying, "We can pledge patents all we wish, we can talk to the press and 'community leaders', we can do all the right things…but we will still be known as GPL violators and that’s the end of it."
He further said that there is nothing that can be done to fix relations with the open-source community. Jeremy would be indirectly working with Google where he would work on Samba, the open-source project he helped launch.
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