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.

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Great quote

[jdludlow]

Coming to a sig file near you:

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.

Now I understand

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Pizza Payments

[sid_vicious]

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!