____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 September 2007 17:32 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Open source geeks asked to 'stand up and be counted'
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| It was Canberra-based coder Dr Andrew Tridgell, for example, that kicked
>>| off the Samba open source project which, for the better part of a decade,
>>| has allowed file and print interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and
>>| Windows clients and vice versa.
>>|
>>| Some of the key contributors to the Linux Kernel, Waugh adds, such as Rusty
>>| Russell and Andrew Morton, are Australians, while Waugh himself is a
>>| contributor to the Gnome desktop project.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Open-source-geeks-asked-to-stand-up-and-be-counted-/0,130061733,339282435,00.htm
>>
>>
>
> I met Andrew at an OSDL meeting in Beijing a couple of years ago. He
> was a very pleasant character indeed, and clearly heavily committed to
> the whole development model.
>
He seems to be 'low profile'. It's Jeremy Allison who is doing all the vocal
work for Samba.
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