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Jeremy Allison

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Jeremy Allison
Born1962 (age 61–62)
NationalityBritish
OccupationProgrammer
EmployerCtrl IQ[1]
Known forSamba
Websitewww.samba.org/~jra/

Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba,[2] a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License.

Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility.[3]

Career

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Free software evangelism

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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.[4]

References

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  1. ^ @jra_samba (2 April 2023). "I'm incredibly excited to be starting a new position on Monday at CIQ" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "In eigener Sache: DELUG-DVD". Linux Magazine. 29 March 2019.
  3. ^ Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista password crackers - recovery, auditing, and PWDUMP tools
  4. ^ "Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider". Archived from the original on 15 May 2007.
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