[ Thanks to BeOpen
for this link. ]
“Daily life in modern Russia can be a struggle, especially if
you’re an entrepreneur trying to get a business off the ground.
When Hans Reiser, founder and president of Namesys, sends me an
email before our telephone interview, he gives a hint of the usual
day-to-day headaches when he outlines the hazards of placing an
international call to his Moscow office.”
“If the wrong person answers, call again. Russian phone lines
are amazingly unreliable in their switching,” he writes. “And if
the connection is really bad also call again. Connection quality is
random per dialing.”
“What would lead an American programmer to forsake the
hallowed ground of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area
for the harsh winters and Dodge City business environment of turn
of the century Moscow? For Reiser, the namesake behind the Reiser
File System, or ReiserFS, one of the three main file systems
currently vying for standard status in the Linux developer
community, the answer is simple: Opportunity.“