Tonight Live: John Terpstra on Samba & Has ebay turned to the "dark Side" >> from The Linux Show!!
Tonight: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are bringing you a great show tonightready to go!!!!!!

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: More on the Novell Linux Coming out party, Microsoft predictions, Linux reaches the 1 million developer mark, is Ebay in bed with Microsoft, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Story Links

• The News This Weeks
  
  • Mircosoft & Linux- differing opinions about Microsoft selling Linux software
    • OSDL CEO expects Microsoft to port apps to Linux-By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller -Newsforge
    • Microsoft As A Linux Software Company?-By Russell Pavlicek - Processor.Com
    • Microsoft and Linux, does this mean "Windex"?-By Alan A. Snyder - A new community voice from LinuxItch
  • The Million Geek Hack-More Than 1.1 Million Developers in North America Now Working on Open Source Projects; New Evans Data Study Reports on North American Software Development Populations
  • Dell Linux Engineering-OK -
  • Is ebay in Bed with Microsoft?-Source Ebay Support Email - is the world ready for an Open Source competitor to Ebay?
  • Is There Room for Mandrake in the Enterprise?-By By James Maguire - Newsfactor
  • New Site- Linux Beginner dot org-welcome
  • Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded-Mozillazine
  • Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise-By Paul Venezia - InfoWorld
• The Weekly SCO
  • Friday's Hearing (02/06/04)- The Transcript as Text-By Pam and team - GrokLaw
  • US markets warm to Linux makers over SCO -By - The Register
• Old SCO
  • Stolen SCO Code in Linux Cannot be Displayed-By -
  • Groklaw Takes A Closer Look at the ABI Files, -By by Frank Sorenson et al - GrokLaw
  • Now They (SCO) Say They Are Down -- Since Saturday Night-
  • Now is the winter of SCO discontent-By Peter Williams and Ian Lynch - VnuNet
  • Tigran Aivazian Says His SMP Contributions to Linux Kernel While at SCO Were Approved by his Boss- Groklaw
  • SCO code to be protected in closed court-By Andrew Colley, ZDNet Australia
  • The Most Recent McBride FUD letter
  • Larry Lessig finally chimes in on SCO
  • Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die, SCO?-By Staff- Groklaw
  • The Grinch Who Stole Linux-By Scott Lazar of Groklaw
  • Novell deal good for Linux, bad for SCO-By Peter Williams - vnunet.com
  • SGI: Letter to the Linux Community- Get bit SCO
  • Halloween IX: It Ain't Necessarily SCO-
  • An Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good thoughts by ESR
  • 'SCO' code could be written out of Linux-
  • Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO's Linux Claims -
  • CALDERA Employees work on Kernel- Jeff:I told you so
  • Torvalds Speaks Out on SCO, Linux- from e-week
  • SCO Owns Your Computer- Byte (how appropriate)
  • OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint-
  • Eric Raymond's attempt to find holes in SCO's claim-
  • SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight- by TODD R. WEISS of Computer World This may be the defining story of the entire SCO situation
• The SCO/Microsoft Connection
  • The Linux and Main Summary- has to be good, quoted jeff.....
  • Linux & Main editorial citing Microsoft- By Dennis Powell
  • "SCO ANNOUNCES UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH MICROSOFT" - the official press release
  • If it Look like a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck? Its a duck HEY DOJ WAKE UP!!!!!!!
  • OK, So Why Did Microsoft Buy That SCO License?- by Maureen O'Gara of LinuxGram

Segment Two- John H Terpstra on Samba and the Open Standards Alliance-

We will be joined tonight by one of the SAMBA TEAM founders, John Terpstra Talking about Samba, some books penned by John and a new initiative fostered by John. Of note is that as of today, Samba 3.0.2 is available for download to the Samba FTP site http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/

Every now and then an application program comes along that can truley be called a "Killer Application." Samba is one of those. Samba continues to rack up awards at Open Source conferences year after year. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

John H Terpstra is CEO/President with PrimaStasys, Inc., a company that mentors Information Technology companies and facilitates profitable change in practices. John is also CEO of Fabuluss Software, Inc. - an innovative company that is working to popularize next generation desktop productivity enhancements.

John was on the formation committee of the Desktop Linux Consortium. John is a well known contributor and visionary in the open source community with a very active commercial focus. He a member of the Open Source Software Institute Advisory Board. He has worked with the LSB, Li18nux (now OpenI18N.Org), is a best selling author of TOSHARG (The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide): and his brand new book S3bE (Samba-3 by Example)

He has other books in production.

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