The
programmer mentioned by
FelonyMPulse is
Andrew Tridgell, the originator of
Samba, which allows
*nix systems to participate in
Microsoft's
SMB/
CIFS networking. Samba is
GPL'ed, but Andrew mentioned the pizza thing "as a bit of a joke" even in the earliest documentation. Over the years, he has been the recipient of many well-deserved pizzas. This is no small achievement, since he lives in
Canberra,
Australia.
From the Samba Meta-FAQ:
2.11 Pizza supply details
Those who have registered in the Samba survey as "Pizza Factory" will
already know this, but the rest may need some help. Andrew doesn't ask
for payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him
pizza. This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is
twenty thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
- Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain
and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do,
which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza
one night, courtesy of someone in the US.
- Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit
card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be
collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany
did this.
- Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has
no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely
useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has
from Germany :-)
- Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional
flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by
hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.