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In this ZDNet Australia special report, the creator of the open source file sharing software Samba explains how he came to write the software that has earned him Bulletin Magazine's Smartest 100 award in the ICT sector for 2003.
The creator of the popular Samba software, which enables Linux machines to act as Windows file-servers, Andrew Tridgell, has been named Australia's smartest person in the ICT sector by Australia's Bulletin Magazine. ZDNet Australia spoke to Tridgell, and Professor Bill Caelli of Queensland's University of Technology (QUT) -- a runner up on the 'Smart 100' list -- about the state of open source in Australia and the future of ICT and open source.
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