Nationality British Name Jeremy Allison Role Computer programmer | Employer Google Website www.samba.org/~jra/ | |
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Born 1962 (age 52–53) Similar People Andrew Tridgell, Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt | ||
Open source googlers jeremy allison
Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License.
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- Open source googlers jeremy allison
- Josh bloch interviewed by jeremy allison
- Free software evangelism
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Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility.
Josh bloch interviewed by jeremy allison
Free software evangelism
During his career, Jeremy Allison has consistently defended the free software approach:
This commitment to free software culminated with his decision to leave Novell in protest of a patent deal that was considered by many as a FUD attack on Linux and other free software, and by Allison as breaking section 7 of the GNU General Public License.
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