[ Thanks to Jeremy
Allison for this link. ]
“Making a career out of writing software? Remember that the
community is more important than your employer.“Working for Google is full of surprises. When I first arrived I
started to get to know my office-mate. He’s a laid back, rather
cool but studious-looking guy with longish hair. I asked him what
he did and learned a lot about how students were taught parallel
processing in a cluster environment. Politely he responded with the
same question and I started to tell him about Samba and what I was
currently working on. ‘You remember around 1988 when AT&T came
out with a file-sharing protocol called RFS (Remote File System) to
compete with NFS (Sun’s Network File System)…’ I
continued…”