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Jeremy Allison

ジェレミー・アリソン　/　じぇれみー・ありそん

Programmer

January 1, 1962 (age 64)

programmer

My Take

Jeremy Allison is the sort of figure most people never hear of yet quietly depend on every day. Through decades of work on Samba, the open-source bridge that lets Windows and Unix systems share files, he helped knit together networks the rest of us simply take for granted. His 2010 O'Reilly Open Source Award feels well earned. What I respect most is the ethos behind it: choosing accessibility and shared benefit over personal gain. I find unsung infrastructure heroes far more compelling than louder celebrities, and Allison is a fine example of someone whose impact is enormous precisely because it stays invisible.

Overview

Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jeremy Allison
Name (Japanese): ジェレミー・アリソン
Reading: じぇれみー・ありそん
Born: January 1, 1962 (age 64)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Tiger
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: programmer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

2010 O'Reilly Open Source Award

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

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