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Tridge Speaks Out
Robert McMillan from Linux Magazine posted an interview with Tridge, of Samba and Tivo fame. He's one of the most important folks in all of Linux, and this interview is worth a read. He covers a lot of good material like crap code, bonobo, and what stuff in the kernel is innovative. He also talks a bit about what he might do after Microsoft drops SMB from future versions of windows.
You end up exchanging dozens of e-mails, where you say, "That's bad because of this and this," and they say, "Oh no, this programming style is great." Then you have got to teach them a couple of years of computer science so they can understand why it's crap.
If you're a company that is trying to compete directly against a free product, you're in trouble.
Now I understand why all those Linux companies went bankrupt. They were competing against each other!
Actually, I would like to have asked him if he still receives occasional "pizza payments" for Samba.
Don't know if it still says it, but in the old docs for Samba, they used to have an address where you could FedEx pizza donations to the Samba team.
Now *that's* my idea of compensation. Free as in beer? Well, what goes better with free beer than free pizza!
If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
From the interview:
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AT: It depends how related it is. If Microsoft does a completely new protocol, it would make far more sense to have a second package. Whether I do that package or not depends on how stupid I feel at the time.
LM: How stupid do you feel right now?
BWAHAHAHA!!
" . . . (who recently jumped ship from Linuxcare to work at VA Linux Systems) . .
I wanted his answer to be, " really stupid considering the companies I have worked for lately."
Nah, can't get that lucky.
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