Awards and Honours
- In October 2003, The Bulletin magazine judged Tridgell to be Australia's smartest Information and Communications Technology person.
- In January 2006, the Free Software Foundation awarded Tridgell its 2005 Award for the Advancement of Free Software, for his work on Samba, the Linux kernel, and rsync. Tridgell was considered to have furthered an important goal of the free software movement since the founding of GNU, analyzing ways for free software to interact with widespread proprietary systems to allow people to more easily move away from those systems.
- In July 2008, Tridgell was named "Best Interoperator" at the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards, for his work on Samba and Rsync.
- Tridgell (along with Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke) has been called a "guru in its traditional Indian meaning" by IT writer, Sam Varghese.
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