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. • He persuaded
Michael Tiemann to use the
GNU General Public License for
Cygwin. • He similarly convinced Tim Wilkinson to put the
Kaffe virtual machine for
Java under the GPL. • He was involved in Silicon Graphics' decision to put
XFS for
Linux under the GPL. 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. == References ==