dot.KDE: aKademy Interview: John Terpstra on Challenges to Free Software | Linux Today

dot.KDE: aKademy Interview: John Terpstra on Challenges to Free Software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 6, 2004

“John Terpstra, one of the long-term members of the Samba Team,
never shies away from speaking his mind. He is known not only for
his work on documenting Samba, and his long experience as a Senior
Consultant, but also for his outspoken views on intellectual
property. Intrigued by an article he published on Groklaw recently,
I took his attendance at the KDE World Summit–aKademy–as an
opportunity to talk to him about his thoughts on intellectual
property, what problems the free software community faces, and how
we (including KDE specifically) should respond…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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