[plug] Shock - Horror ---- Gentoo founder goes to M$?!

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Fri Jul 15 15:59:57 WST 2005


Sorry, Bill only got it last night, and then the datelines on the
reports were 14 July - so mea Culpa.

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 06:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> old news, its is there on the front page, but it happened some weeks
> back and is well down the page.  Some low key (considering the topic)
> discussion about it on the lists, mostly good wishes to Daniel.
> Consensus seems to be that a guy has to eat (he is under some debt from
> his time at gentoo), and the position was seen as more of a public
> relations and liason with open source function.  Daniel is held in high
> regard by most people.
> 
> Also a couple of mentions here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050620-newsletter.xml
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 23:55 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=40&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
> > says the following ...
> > 
> > > Daniel Robbins, founder and former Chief Architect of the popular
> > > source-based Gentoo distribution, has taken up a new position at
> > > Microsoft.
> > 
> > As well as a little bit more - I don't see anything on the Gentoo site
> > about it.
> > 
> > Anyone know anything else?
> > 
-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>




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