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Groklaw has posted a transcript and audio files (both mp3 and ogg) in which Volker Lendecke and Jeremy Allison of the Samba Team discuss the Court of First Instance ruling in Luxembourg with Georg Greve of the FSFE and counsel Carlo Piana. From the introduction to the discussion, moderated by Sean Daly:
This is living history. I wanted you and your children and your grandchildren to know some of those they can thank, because when almost all the vendors were signing peace pacts with Microsoft, taking settlement money and slinking away from the case, they stayed to fight to the end. Their role was essentially to speak for FOSS and to make sure the court and the EU Commission understood the technology and the needs of Linux and Samba and all those trying to compete with Microsoft from the Free Software/Open Source community. Unbelievably, they won.
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