Jeremy Allison
{{Short description|Computer programmer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2018}}
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| nationality = British
| employer = Ctrl IQ{{Cite tweet |user=jra_samba |number=1642319148800970752 |title=I'm incredibly excited to be starting a new position on Monday at CIQ}}
| occupation = Programmer
| known_for = Samba
| website = {{URL|http://www.samba.org/~jra/}}
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Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba,{{cite news|url= https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2019/05/einfuehrung-17/|title= In eigener Sache: DELUG-DVD|date= March 29, 2019|work= Linux Magazine }} 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.[http://www.openwall.com/passwords/microsoft-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003 Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista password crackers - recovery, auditing, and PWDUMP tools]
Career
= Free software evangelism =
During his career, Jeremy Allison has consistently defended the free software approach:
- He pitched making Vantive Corporation code free software to its founder.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}
- He persuaded Michael Tiemann to use the GNU General Public License for Cygwin.{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}}
- He similarly convinced Tim Wilkinson to put the Kaffe virtual machine for Java under the GPL.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}
- He was involved in Silicon Graphics' decision to put XFS for Linux under the GPL.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://news.samba.org/announcements/team_to_novell |title=Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515091457/http://news.samba.org/announcements/team_to_novell/ |archive-date=2007-05-15 |df= }}
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External links
- [http://www.samba.org/~jra/ Jeremy Allison's web page]
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