The following is what i wrote on “43people.com” about the boss. I thought it was worth keeping in my own archives, since it’s actually a story about my life as it pertains to Mr. Bezos.
Back a few years ago, I was taking some classes down in Edmonds.
The one I’m thinking of in particular was on the care and feeding
of unix. We were using red hat linux 6.0 or some crufty version
that wasn’t so crufty at the time.
Anyway, the prof didn’t require that we buy any books, but he made some suggestions. And he also suggested that we buy them on this new fangled “Internet” thing through a few of his friends down south in Seattle at this place called Amazon.com.
And thus was my introduction to O’Reilly and Associates. I soon thereafter bought a book called “ …
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