a conversation with Jeremy Allison of Samba
On a recent visit back to the UK, lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison met up with Richard Hillesley. Here, Richard Allison’s description of the history of his involvement with open source, Linux and Samba.
Jeremy Allison is a steelworker’s son from Sheffield in South Yorkshire and a Samba developer who has lived in California for twenty years or more, but who has retained much of the accent, humour and politics of his youth.
He was in the UK during the recent riots and “got to enjoy them first hand”, but says he doesn’t miss much about England other than the company of his family and friends and an occasional hankering for a jar of Branston Pickle or a tin of baked beans; the kind of things you don’t imagine you’ll miss until you are living somewhere else.