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Interview with Andrew Tridgell

Posted by michael on from the sharing-made-easy dept.

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes "See here for a *great* interview with tridge. My favourite quote: 'In 50 years' time I doubt anyone would have ever heard of Samba, but they'll probably be using rsync in one way or another,' Tridgell says. Cheers, Jeremy."

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  1. Not just Microsoft... by Jacco+de+Leeuw · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Years ago I stumbled into a bug in OS/2 Warp 4. I got the SMB networking process to crash after a sequence of smbclient commands.

    So I downloaded a bug report form from the IBM website, filled in all details and sent it off. After a while I got a response. I could not make heads or tails of it. It was in some kind of IBM speak. (IBM speak really exists. Do they still call a harddisk a "hard file"? :-)

    So I forwarded the message to Timothy Sipples, who had been very active on Usenet and had just started working for IBM. He translated it for me: I was not a big account customer so they would not accept the bug report. Sigh...

    Soon after that, Linux became my main OS.

    (I actually made a patch for smbclient so that it would not kill OS/2, but I never forwarded it to the Samba people).

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