As Bill Lubanovic and I were putting the final touches on this book, I overheard a conversation between two coworkers in our Cisco lab discussing Linux. The senior networking guru of the two made an interesting remark. He said that despite all his knowledge, he felt incomplete as a professional because he had never learned Linux. A moment later he and the other gentleman turned to me and looked me square in the eyes. I smiled and went on working. That evening, our director of Information Technology made an offhand remark to me during a conference that struck me as unusual. He said that he wanted to.
