Remembering Joe, a Quarter of a Century of Inspiration and Friendship

Joe was disgusted by their treatment (he was the one who showed me how bittorrent worked), but he did smile when I told him one of the Pirate Bay founders claimed in an interview he was going to use his time in jail to learn Erlang. (I’ve looked everywhere for the article where I read about it, if anyone has a link, please send it to me December 1998, a few days after Erlang was released as open source, Joe and some of his Computer Science Lab colleagues left to found Bluetail, later acquired by Alteon Websystems, who in turn got acquired by Nortel. I do recall being told of the buzz at Nortel when Erlang Solutions launched its first website, and when the dotcom bubble burst, receiving a call from Pekka, a colleague of his, saying he, Joe, Robert, Jane and many others in the team had just been fired!

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